# Study of a Stag \(recto\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Brush drawing with watercolour over black chalk, 135 x 167 mm ## Commentary Study of a Stag \(recto\) 1520s Brush drawing with watercolour over black chalk, 135 x 167 mm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles This is the only surviving sheet from Cranach's workshop to show animals painted in watercolour on both sides of the sheet. It may have come from a lost sketchbook. The stag on the recto can be related to the walking stag towards the right edge of the Golden Age in Munich. ## Related artworks - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion \(detail\)]() - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion]() - [A Prince of Saxony]() - [A Princess of Saxony]() - [Adam and Eve \(detail\)]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()