LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

37.52 in. (95.30 cm.) (height) by 53.31 in. (135.40 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Munich, Galerie Wolfgang Gurlitt, Meister des Manierismus: Gemälde, Handzeichnungen, Druckgraphik, 1962, no. 61.

Literature:

(Probably) K. van Mander, Het schilder-boeck, Haarlem, 1604, f. 272r. (Probably) Recorded in the 1621 inventory of the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, no. 879. E. Diez, ‘Der Hofmaler Bartholomaus Spranger’, Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, XXVIII, 1909, p. 125. K. Oberhuber, ‘Die stilistiche Entwicklung im Werk Bartholomaus Sprangers’, PhD thesis, University of Vienna, 1958, pp. 78-80, 223-4, no. 18. M. Henning, Die Tafelbilder Bartholomäus Sprangers (1546-1611): Höfische Marlerei zwischen “Manierismus” und “Barock”, Essen, 1987, p. 178, no. A8. T. Kaufmann, The School of Prague: Painting at the Court of Rudolf II, Chicago, 1988, p. 250, no. 20.3. M. Hollander, An Entrance for the Eyes: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art, California, 2002, pp. 8 and 203. S. Metzler, Bartholomeus Spranger: Splendour and Eroticism in Imperial Prague. The Complete Works, New Haven and London, 2014, pp. 89-90, no. 19.

Provenance:

(Probably) Given by the artist to Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552-1612), in 1576, inv. no. 879. Anonymous sale; Internationales Kunst und Auktionshaus, Berlin, 9 May 1933, lot 231. with Wolfgang Gurlitt Galerie, Munich, 1962. Anonymous sale; Lempertz, Cologne, 18 November 1965, lot 201. Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner and restituted to the heirs of Dr. Curt Glaser, October 2017