# Christ and the Adulteress

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Younger](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on beech panel, 15 x 20 cm

## Commentary

The New Testament stories of Christ and the Adulteress and Christ Blessing the Children were frequently treated by the Cranach workshop. However, their pairing as pendants, as in the two small panels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, was unprecedented. The subject of Christ and the Adulteress appeared in the repertoire of the Cranach workshop around 1520. Lucas Cranach the Elder established a compositional standard - horizontal format, frieze-like arrangement of figures, and black background - that endured for decades in numerous examples.

## Related artworks

- [Adam and Eve](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/adam-and-eve-r55985dcd7dbc5c>)
- [Adam](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/adam-rf36297d22ad1b3>)
- [Caritas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/caritas-rc1b1197d531709>)
- [Caritas](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/caritas-rfe9fc67c8bfb15>)
- [Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/christ-and-the-woman-taken-in-adultery-r5921032de8572e>)
- [Christ as the Man of Sorrows](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/christ-as-the-man-of-sorrows-r831c7b5e9bce5a>)
- [Christ Blessing the Children \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/christ-blessing-the-children-detail-ra23ed596bdc969>)
- [Christ Blessing the Children](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/christ-blessing-the-children-r32c10f2c42936d>)
- [Christ Blessing the Children](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/christ-blessing-the-children-r52c0a846598bf5>)
- [Crucifixion \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/crucifixion-detail-r01f780e95ad488>)
- [Diana and Actaeon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/diana-and-actaeon-rf7bf0695e6a8b9>)
- [Eve](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-younger-r5ad9b9c0b513e4/eve-r0fb32db7e7b191>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)