After Lucas Cranach I

Dr. Dieter Koepplin viewed the present painting on 15 April 2002, judging it to be an old copy from the early 17th century (written correspondence, 2 May 2002). Several versions of this composition are known, including a workshop painting in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, a panel by a Follower of Cranach in the Staatsgalerie im Schloss Johannisburg, Aschaffenburg, and a copy after Lucas Cranach the Younger formerly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 27 March 1956, lot 10; see M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, Ithaca, 1978, nos. 388 J-N). We are grateful to Joshua Waterman for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.