Lucas Cranach the Elder

The Young Christ adored by Saint John the Baptist 《幼年基督受施洗者聖約翰朝拜》

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The Property of a Gentleman

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Kronach 1472 - 1553 Weimar

The Young Christ adored by Saint John the Baptist

signed lower left with the artist's device of a winged serpent with elevated wings, and dated: 1534

oil on panel

35.2 x 23.2 cm.; 13⅞ x 9⅛ in.

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老盧卡斯・克拉納赫

1472年生於克羅納赫，1553年卒於魏瑪

《幼年基督受施洗者聖約翰朝拜》

款識：藝術家以其翼蛇紋章簽名並紀年1534（左下）

油彩畫板

35.2 x 23.2 公分；13 ⅞ x 9 ⅛ 英寸

Probably private collection, France;¹

Edward R. Bacon (1848–1915), New York;

Albert Keller (1879–1939), New York, by 1928;

Mr and Mrs Drury W. Cooper, New Jersey, by circa 1935–40;

Thence by descent to John M. Cooper (b. 1939), Princeton;

By whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1995, lot 10;

Where acquired for a private collection, USA;

Whence sold (‘Property from an American Private Collection’), New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2016, lot 14;

Where acquired by the present owner.

M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach, Berlin 1932, p. 64, no. 184, reproduced;

M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London 1978, p. 114, no. 222, reproduced fig. 222;

D. Görres, in G. Heydenreich, D. Görres, and B. Wismer (eds), Lucas Cranach der Ältere: Meister, Marke, Moderne, exh. cat., Munich 2017, p. 174, no. 82, reproduced in colour p. 175.