LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

39.57 in. (100.50 cm.) (height) by 23.23 in. (59.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed with initials and dated lower right: I.W. / 1525

Exhibited:

Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, and Munster, Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Sammlung Heinz Kisters , 25 June - 15 September 1963 and 6 October - 17 November 1963, p. 10, cat. no. 41, reproduced fig. 60;. Basel, Kunstmuseum, Lukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, 15 June - 8 September 1974, cat. no. 582.

Literature:

J. Pesina, Paintings of the Gothic and Renaissance periods, 1450-1550, transl. H. Watney, Prague 1958, p. 78, no. 343, reproduced plate 252;. K. Locher, 'Review', in Pantheon, vol. 6, 1963, p. 397;. Meisterwerke der Sammlung Heinz Kisters, Kreuzlingen 1971, p. 37, no. 43;. D. Koepplin and T. Falk eds. Lukas Cranach, Gemälde Zeichnungen Druckgraphik, exhibition catalogue, Basel 1974, vol. II, p. 665, cat. no. 582, and vol. I, p. 37;. Mistr IW. Galerie Výstarného Umení Litomeríce, exhibition catalogue, Litomerice 1993, p. 22, reproduced;. Pod znamením okrídleného hada. Lucas Cranach a ceské zeme, exhibition catalogue, Prague 2005, p. 47, under cat. no. 34.

Provenance:

Heinz Kisters, Kreuzlingen;. By descent until sold ('Property from a Distinguished European Collection'), New York, Sotheby's, 31 January 2013, lot 11, where acquired by the present owner..