LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

8.50 in. (21.60 cm.) (height) by 6.89 in. (17.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

inscribed 'VON GOTTES GNADEN ERNST HERT / ZOGZV BRVNSWEICH VND LVNEBVRG / HERTZOG HEINRICHEN SOHN' (lower centre)

Literature:

Spezial-Inventar der Königl. Marienberg. Oelgemälde, Stiche & sonstige Bilder, Skulpturen, etc., 1906/7, unpublished inventory, Archiv Schloß Marienburg, Pattensen, no. 63.

Provenance:

(Possibly) The sitter, and by descent to his son, Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, later Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg (1533-1598), and thence by descent until, Schloss Marienburg, by 1906/7 (inv. no. 63, room 25), and later Schloss Blankenburg, by circa 1929 (according an inventory label on the reverse, no. 0062), and by descent until acquired by the present owner in circa 2002.