# Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen and dark brown ink over black pencil ## Commentary Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery c. 1530 Pen and dark brown ink over black pencil Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt Representation of this subject, with its didactic and moralising content, were popular among Protestants, and the number of variants on the theme is correspondingly large. The Cranach workshop produced them mainly from the 1530s. ## 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]()