The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 21, 2026

A vertically oriented print in gray and black ink depicts Saint Christopher, a muscular man with a light skin tone, wavy beard, and heavily folded robes. Wading through water toward our right, he looks up at the nude Christ child holding an orb on his shoulder. Christopher leans on a thick branch. A tree at our left displays two shields, while a figure on the shore to our right holds a lantern.

St. Christopher

c. 1509

Lucas Cranach

(German, 1472–1553)
Germany
chiaroscuro woodcut
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1928.633
Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein 79
Location: Not on view
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