Workshop of Bernardino Lanino (Mortara 1512-1583 Vercelli)

A note on the provenance: In 1902, Dr. Cornelius Löwe, his son Eberhard Löwe, and Ernst Knaudt founded Pharus Verlag, the publisher of Pharus Maps. He began collecting art before the start of the First World War, but it is not known exactly when this picture entered his collection. On his death in 1933, the collection passed to his widow Hedwig and his son Ulrich, father of the present owner. Due to his Jewish heritage, Ulrich was dismissed from his job in the Prussian Ministry for the Interior, and was forced to sell off much of his art collection to survive. The remaining works were lost in the allied bombing of Berlin in 1945. The present work was gifted by Cornelius to his son in the late 1920s or early 30s.