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Original works by Lucas Cranach the Elder available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
3 works by Lucas Cranach online
Lucas Cranach the Elder at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
6 works by Cranach
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
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
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Stag Hunt of the Elector Frederick the Wise, 1529
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, ca.1530
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 the Elder at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Dead hind, the four limbs extended, and hind's head, pen and ink drawing, ca.1520-30
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Lucas Cranach the Elder at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: Judith with the Head of Holofernes, ca.1530
Samson and Delilah
The Judgment of Paris
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
4 works
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
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Lucas Cranach the Elder at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Lucas Cranach the Elder
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)
Lucas Cranach the Elder at the National Gallery, London, UK
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Torgau Altar
Venus
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
2 works
Art Fund for UK Museums
Judith with the Head of Holofernes, 1530
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, England
Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, 1532
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK
Portrait of Martin Luther
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Saint Helena with the True Cross
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
A Tournament Scene
Hunting near Hartenfels Castle
Compton Verney, Warwick, England
Maria Lactans (The Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels), ca.1470-75
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
St. Christopher and the Christ Child, ca.1518
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Flemish Art Collection Database (in Dutch)
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Portrait de jeune fille
Vénus et Cupidon
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Venus and Cupid
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Germany (in German)
Hercules with Omphale
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland NEW!
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Landesmuseum Joanneum, Austria (in German)
The Judgement of Paris
Lázaro Galdiano Foundation Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Lucas Cranach the Elder in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Charity
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
The Third Tournament
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (in French) NEW!
La Mélancolie, 1532
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
La Nymphe à la source
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
Saint John the Baptist; The Immaculate Conception
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
The Ill-Matched Couple
Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)
Portrait d'une noble dame saxonne
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Philipp Melanchthon, 1532
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
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National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
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
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
The Betrayal and Capture of Christ, 1515
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Lucas Cranach online
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Price Moritz of Saxony as a Child, 1526
Prague Castle Picture Gallery, Czech Republic
St. Catherine and St. Barbara
Prints in the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas
Jousting Tournament, woodcut, 1509
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Madonna and Child, ca.1525
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
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) NEW!
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
State Museums of Berlin NEW!
2 paintings online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
The Orangerie and the Otto Dix House, Gera, Germany
Postersteiner Altar, ca.1516/17
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Université de Liège Collections (in French)
Virtual Uffizi
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida - Provenance Research NEW!
The Holy Trinity
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
The Feast of Herod
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Judith, 1525
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Maria Magdalena, 1525
Commercial Galleries:
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 53
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 245
Pictures from Image Archives:
Lucas Cranach the Elder in the Art Renewal Center
Lucas Cranach the Elder in the Artchive
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
CGFA
Insecula
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Aiwaz Panopticon NEW!
Artyzm
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Farbdia Archiv (Color Slide Archive) (in German)
Thousands of photographs of fresco cycles and wall decorations in churches and other buildings in and around Germany.
Click "Galerie" for a normal overview; click "digilib" to zoom in.
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
Olga's Gallery
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
Beloit College Department of Classics
The Judgement of Paris
Christie's
Portraits of Kurfurst Herzog Johann von Sachsen and of his Son
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
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Lucas Cranach the Elder
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Art & Antiques Magazine NEW!
"The Entrepreneur: Lucas Cranach's workshop was a well-oiled art machine"
Art + Auction Magazine NEW!
"Artist dossier: Works by Lucas Cranach the Elder appeal to contemporary tastes"
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