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Lot 3011 - A214 Old Master Paintings - Friday, 19. September 2025, 02.00 PM

LUCAS CRANACH the Elder and studio

(Kronach 1472–1553 Weimar)
The Virgin and Child with Saint Ann. Circa 1516.
Oil on panel.
39.5 × 16 cm.

Provenance:
- Collection of Jeffrey Whitehead.
- Auction Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6.8.1915, lot 70 (as School of Cranach).
- Auction Christie's, London, 31.10.1980 (as L. Cranach).
- Auction Sotheby's, London, 8.4.1987, lot 26 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder).
- Private collection, Switzerland.

Literature:
Claus Grimm, Johannes Erichsen, Evamaria Brockhoff (ed.): Lucas Cranach, ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken, Katalog zur Landesausstellung in der Festung Rosenberg, Kronach/Augsburg 1994, pp. 151 f. (with ill. A95 on p. 152).

Our thanks to Dr Dieter Koepplin, who saw this picture in the original in 1985, and has again confirmed its authenticity on the basis of a photograph.
The painting is recorded at the Corpus Cranach under catalogue raisonne number CC-ALX-100-002 and at the Cranach Digital Archive under number CDA ID PRIVATE_NONE-P218.

CHF 20 000 / 30 000 | (€ 20 620 / 30 930)

Sold for CHF 52 500 (including buyer's premium)