Anbetung der Heiligen Drei Könige

Baldung's Adoration of the Magi from around 1510 is a treatment of the subject he had already approached in his 1506 Three Kings Altarpiece, demonstrating his continued engagement with one of the most compositionally demanding devotional subjects. The Adoration required the painter to integrate three distinct national and generational types—the three Magi representing Africa, Asia, and Europe, or old age, middle age, and youth—within a coherent scene organized around the central devotional act of kneeling before the infant Christ. Baldung's mature treatment would have deployed his characteristic figure precision and compositional ambition, giving each Magus individual character within the ceremonial framework of the devotional subject. The 1510 date places this in his early Strasbourg period, just after his departure from Dürer's workshop.

The Adoration scene is rendered with vivid color and rich costume detail, the Magi's exotic garments adding decorative splendor to the devotional composition.