Workshop of Lucas Cranach the elder

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Description

The ill-matched lovers
bears signature with the artist's device of a serpent and date: 1533
oil on panel

Provenance

The Barons Palm, Würtemmberg (according to a wax seal on the reverse).

Catalogue Note

A studio copy of the same dimensions after Cranach's original in New York, Seymour R. Thaler collection that was formerly at Rossie Priory (see M.J. Friedländer, J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London 1978, p. 126, cat. no. 286, reproduced).