The Birth of Mary.

Mary is bathed by two women. In the background Anna in a cottage bed, behind this two women, one with plate, the other with spoon. Signed in the lower left corner with a dragon and 1518 (Lucas Cranach). The painting possibly workshop work, the signing possibly later made up. In the 18th century folder on the back: “Johan Döpar: birth painted by Lucas Cranach.” Profiled and gilded frame, width of list 115 mm.On the back written with pencil “No 29” (22 el. 29) and “Aln 6 22.5 in the day.” Painted brown cross. Wrangel 1676 ev. No. 137, lot 1: 103 “Johannis geburth (?) 16: -.” In 1728 and 1756, the blackboard is called a cot piece and the former 1756 added “taken to Stockholm.” (1728: N2, 3: -) Reincreased 1832, p 169. Consider the birth of John the Baptist. 1910 “The Birth of Mary Sign 1518.” The Birth of St Mary. This motif by Cranach (his studio?), signed and dated with the bewinged snake 1518, This ts the This born child bathed by two women Ann is lying in bed. At the center back are two women, the one on the holding a plate, the other a spoon. The Possible was swatched as war booty from Munich 1632.