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Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Christ and the Adulteress

ca. 1545–50
Oil on beech
15.9 × 21.6 cm (6.3 × 8.5 in)

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● On view now — Gallery 537

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · verified July 2026

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