LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on copper

Measurements:

18.50 in. (47.00 cm.) (height) by 12.99 in. (33.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

indistinctly signed in monogram on the base of Diana's throne lower right

Literature:

J. Zimmer, Joseph Heintz d. Ä als Maler (1564-1609), Diss. Heidelberg (published Bamberg) 1967, pp. 240ff.;. J. Zimmer, Joseph Heintz der Ä ltere als Maler, Weißenhorn 1971, p. 98, no. A 17, reproduced fig. 46;. T. DaCosta Kaufmann, L'École de Prague, Paris 1985, p. 234, no. 7-29, reproduced (as a lost work);. T. DaCosta Kaufmann, The School of Prague, Chicago and London 1988 (English ed. of the above), pp. 191-92, no. 7-29, reproduced p. 192 (as a lost work);. J. Zimmer, Joseph Heintz der Ältere. Zeichnungen und Dokumente, Munich and Berlin 1988, pp. 137-38, under no. A 59;. J. Zimmer, in Prag um 1600. Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Rudolfs II, exhibition catalogue, Freren 1988, pp. 349-50, under no. 207.

Provenance:

Probably painted for the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Prague;. Probably Gottfried Winkler, Leipzig, 1768, no. 142;. With Curt Benedict, Paris, 1939;. With Galerie Heinemann, Wiesbaden, from whom acquired by the father of the present owners in the late 1960s or early 1970s.