Lot 14: Lucas Cranach, the Younger (Wittenberg 1515-1586 Weimar) The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels oil on panel 30 x 21 7/8 in. (76.3 x 55.5 cm.)

Lucas Cranach, the Younger
(Wittenberg 1515-1586 Weimar)
The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels
signed with the artist's device of a serpent with wings folded (centre left, on the stone parapet)
oil on panel
30 x 21 7/8 in. (76.3 x 55.5 cm.)

M.J. Ruhl, Liège.
Christophe Rhaban Ruhl (1802-1875), Cologne; his sale (†), J.M. Heberle, Cologne, 15 May 1876 (=1st day), lot 15, as 'Lucas Cranach the Elder', illustrated (470 marks).
Anonymous sale; Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, 3-4 May 1957, lot 450, as 'Lucas Cranach the Elder'.
with Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1959, as 'Lucas Cranach the Elder'.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Sotheby’s, London, 23 March 1960 (=1st day), lot 125, as 'Lucas Cranach the Elder' (£2,800 to V. Lewis).
Acquired by the parents of the present owners in circa 1960.