# A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil and tempera on wood, 83 x 56 cm ## Commentary A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion c. 1526 Oil and tempera on wood, 83 x 56 cm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles This painting represents one of the mythological descriptions of 'wild people', the forest dwellers and demigods who first appear in Cranach's work in prints and drawings. Shortly before 1530 he began producing these as independent pictorial subjects, using the medium of panel painting. The present picture is an example of these paintings. ## Related artworks - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion \(detail\)]() - [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]() - [Adam and Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()