Infrared reflectography of the panel showing
Cranach's underdrawing, with various pentiments.
Lucas Cranach the Elder (Kronach 1472 - 1553 Weimar) and studio
Provenance
Pastor Adolf Glitza, Hamburg, 1893.
Mrs Meyer-Glitza, Hamburg, 1932;
Anonymous sale, Berlin, Graupe, 10 December 1932, lot 96;
By descent until sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 10 November 2008, lot 124, where acquired post-sale by a private collector;
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 29 July 2020, lot 108, where acquired by the present owner.
Exhibitions
London, Greenwich, The Queen's House, National Maritime Museum (on loan October 2018 – December 2019).
Literature
M. J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach, Berlin 1932, p. 48, cat. no. 96, reproduced (as Cranach the Elder).
M. J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London 1978, p. 91, cat. no. 109, illustrated (as Cranach the Elder, circa 1518–1520).
K. Chamonikola, Pod znamením okrídleného hada. Lucas Cranach a ceské zeme, exh. cat., Prague 2005, p. 110, under cat. no. 27.
Cranach Digital Archive (as Cranach the Elder).