Lucas Cranach the Elder (and workshop) · 1546
The Fountain of Youth
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Old women are carted, carried and led to a square pool where they bathe and step out young, then dance and feast under the trees at right, beneath a fountain topped with Venus and Cupid, with a castle on a crag at left. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.
Up to 18.4 × 12 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
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Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
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The story of The Fountain of Youth
Cranach painted the Fountain of Youth in 1546 on a lime wood panel measuring 186.1 x 120.6 cm. The women are aged on the left and rejuvenated on the right, where young couples dance and dine; the figures of Venus and Cupid crown the fountain. Whether the painting is by Cranach the Elder, his son or the workshop is not certain; it has been in the Berlin collections since at least 1830.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits, both of German princes and leaders of the Protestant Reformation, whose cause he embraced with enthusiasm. He was a close friend of Martin Luther, and eleven portraits of that reformer by him survive. Cranach also painted religious subjects, first in the Catholic tradition, and later trying to find new ways of conveying Lutheran religious concerns in art. He continued to paint nude subjects from mythology and religion throughout his career.
All Lucas Cranach the Elder (and workshop) prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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