LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on alder wood panel

Measurements:

24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (height) by 15.67 in. (39.80 cm.) (width)

Provenance:

Said to have been seized by the King of Poland following the siege of Dresden in the Seven Years' War, and presented to. Caspar de Chesne, Colonel in the Guard of the King of Poland, by whom described in letters written in Warsaw on 20th December 1799 and 11th January 1800 to his nephew, Graf Friedrich-Heinrich von Borcke, as "my Correggio";. By inheritance to his sister;. By inheritance to her son, Graf Friedrich-Heinrich von Borcke;. By inheritance to his son, who offered it for sale (as Correggio) to the King of Prussia in an undated letter, in which he refers to it having belonged to his late father (Graf von Borcke), whom he names;. Acquired by the grandfather of the present owners from an antique shop in Bad Godesberg in 1948