Important Old Master Paintings

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Lot 265
  • 265

Attributed to Lucas Cranach the Younger Wittenberg 1515 - 1586

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Description

  • Lucas Cranach the Younger
  • Portrait of Prince Joachim Ernst von Anhalt; Portrait of Princess Agnes Gräfin von Barby
  • a pair, both oil on panel

Provenance

B. Narischkine;
His sale, Paris, Galerie George Petit, April 5, 1883, Lots 43 and 44 (as German School, 16th century).

Catalogue Note

We are grateful to Dr. Werner Schade for confirming the attribution to Lucas Cranach the Younger, based on photographs.

These portraits would most likely have originally formed the wings of a triptych, with a central devotional panel.  Dr. Schade speculates that they may have been painted at the time of the sitters' marriage on March 3, 1560.  Cranach the Younger also painted full length standing portraits of the same sitters in 1563 (Halle, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg).