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Lucas Cranach : The Fountain of Youth, 1546
Photograph by Flickr user "ho visto nina volare", Creative Commons licensed
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Lucas Cranach the Elder Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Lucas Cranach at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Saint Christopher, 1518/20
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many prints online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Portrait of a Lady of the Saxon Court as Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
6 works by Cranach
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A Faun and His Family with a Slain Lion
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by Cranach
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
"Cranach Magnified" - Zoom way in on details of 11 different paintings by Lucas Cranach
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Portrait of a Scholar, ca.1515
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
2 paintings online; see the "Germany" section
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Lucretia, 1532 (Zoom)
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Portrait of the Elector Friedrich III the Wise of Saxony, 1532 (Zoom)
Lucas Cranach at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Dead hind, the four limbs extended, and hind's head, ca.1520-30
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Seville, Spain (in Spanish)
(Click on "ampliar imagen" for a huge enlargement of the image)
Calvario
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
The Suicide of Lucretia, 1529
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Venus
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Venus
(Information about the restoration of this work)
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Torgau Altar
Venus
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
2 works
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Portrait of a Lady
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brighton & Hove Museums, England
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Portrait of Martin Luther
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
Saint Helena with the True Cross
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Compton Verney, Warwick, England
Lot and his Daughters
Compton Verney, Warwick, England
Portrait of Sigmund Kingsfelt
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
St. Christopher and the Christ Child, ca.1518
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Portrait de jeune fille
Vénus et Cupidon
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Venus and Cupid
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Germany (in German)
Hercules with Omphale
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "C"
Lázaro Galdiano Foundation Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Charity
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The Third Tournament
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
5 works
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (mostly in French)
La Mélancolie, 1532
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
La Nymphe à la source
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Portrait d'une noble dame saxonne
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
The Ill-Matched Couple
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
See the FIRST Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
National Museum of Art of Romania
Venus and Cupid
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
The Garden of Gethsemane, ca.1518
National Museums Liverpool, UK
The Nymph of the Fountain
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
The ill-matched couple
Nizhni Novgorod Art Museum, Russia
Lucretia, 1535
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Prague Castle Picture Gallery, Czech Republic
St. Catherine and St. Barbara
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Madonna and Child, ca.1525
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as Saint Jerome, 1520s
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Portrait posthume du Dr J. Scheyring
Vénus et l'Amour
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany
9 works online
Seattle Art Museum
Speed Art Museum, Kentucky
Herodias, ca.1530
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
State Museums of Berlin
2 paintings online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Lucas Cranach at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Orangerie and the Otto Dix House, Gera, Germany
Postersteiner Altar, ca.1516/17
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Site for a 2007 exhibition, Dürer & Cranach: Art and Humanism in Renaissance Germany
Université de Liège Collections (in French)
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Virtual Uffizi
Virtual Uffizi
Martin Luther and and his wife
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida - Provenance Research
The Holy Trinity
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
The Feast of Herod
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Judith, 1525
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Maria Magdalena, 1525
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
Untitled (Portrait of a Lady)
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
Untitled (Portrait of John I of Saxony), 1538
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
3 works online when last checked
Danish Museums Online (in Danish)
(You can switch to English by going to the very top of the site, but the viewable works are much fewer)
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Lost Art Internet Database, Germany
Two dead bullfinches hanging on a nail, drawing, 1530
Lost Art Internet Database, Germany
Dead crow, drawing, ca.1530
Lost Art Internet Database, Germany
Lying red deer, drawing, 1539
Online Archive of California
The Agony in the Garden, from Passion of Christ
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
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