LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and tempera on limewood panel

Measurements:

29.88 in. (75.90 cm.) (height) by 23.39 in. (59.40 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Frankfurt, Städel, Cranach, 23 November 2007 - 17 February 2008, no. 17.

Literature:

J. Wittmann, "Die Bedeutung des Marienbildes im Schaffen Cranachs", in I. Sandner (ed.), Unsichtbare Meisterzeichnungen auf dem Malgrund – Cranach und seine Zeitgenossen. Catalogue of the Exhibition and Record of the Symposium at the Wartburg in Eisenach, Regensburg 1998, pp. 170-1; B. Brinkmann, in B. Brinkman (ed.), Cranach, exhibition catalogue, Frankfurt 2007, p. 146, no. 17, reproduced in colour facing page, and English language edition, London 2008, also p. 146, no. 17, reproduced facing page; A. Kunz, Review of the Cranach exhibition, in The Burlington Magazine, vol. CL, March 2008, p. 200 ('unlike anything in Cranach's oeuvre'); N. H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, p. 425, no. B45, listed (in the section "Likely in Goering's Collection").

Provenance:

With Dr. Curt Benedict, Paris (by November 1937); With Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam (by February 1939), Bears Cassirer Gallery label on the reverse, with the handwriting of Dr. Lütjens, Director of the gallery; With Walter Andreas Hofer, Berlin (acquired from the above in February 1939); Sold by Hofer for Reichsmarks 24,000 to Konrad Kaletsch, Berlin, intended as a belated (12th January 1939) birthday gift from his uncle Dr. Friedrich Flick to Hermann Goering; Probably Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering; With Walter Andreas Hofer, Munich (by 1955 and probably by 1952); Sold in 1955 to Professor Robert Ellscheid, Cologne-Marienburg; Thence by descent to the present owner, his grandson.