Prior to 1900 were there any depictions of Satan in Christian art as a woman/female?

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Lucas Cranach the Elder (c.1472 – 16 October 1553), a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and , made the following woodcut in 1523.It depicts Satan as half serpent and half woman!

Adam and Eve, Woodcut by Lucas Cranach, the Elder, 1523.

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I'm a high school art teacher with a particular interest in a similar question that may shed some light on yours. I've been researching the development of the image of satan in early, medieval, and renaissance Christian art and I have not run across a single image of Satan depicted as a woman. Now there are many images from these periods of the "Whore of Babylon" for instance in Durer's Apocalypse, or the Apocalypse Tapestry from medieval France, but that's kind of stretching it.

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