LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

20.98 in. (53.30 cm.) (height) by 15.00 in. (38.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with the artist's serpent device (lower right)

Literature:

M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, Ithaca, 1978, p. 128, no. 305B.

Provenance:

Francesco von Mendelssohn, Paris by whom consigned to Knoedler, New York in February 1938. with Knoedler, New York from where purchased in August 1939 by Mrs. Alfred W. Erickson; Parke-Bernet, New York, 15 November 1961, lot 6, $105,000 to Agnew's on behalf of. Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. and by descent.