Lucas Cranach, The Younger
The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels
Estimate: 700.000 - 1.000.000 GBP
Price realised: 791.250 GBP
Price realised: 791.250 GBP
Description
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'
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'
Auction result well in line with expectations
The work The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels by Lucas Cranach II was sold in the Old Masters Evening Sale auction at Christies in London in December 2019. The price achieved of GBP 791,250.00 (€ 935,164.89) was within expectations - the estimate range had previously been set by the auction house as GBP 700,000.00 – 1,000,000.00. However, buyers have had to dig much deeper into their pockets for other works by Lucas Cranach II - we have observed the highest auction result to date for the work Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a green velvet and orange dress and a pearl-embroidered black hat, which sold at auction in July 2007 for GBP 1,812,000.00 (€ 2,691,238.28).
Auktionsergebnis im Rahmen der Erwartungen
Die Arbeit The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels von Lucas Cranach II wurde im Dezember 2019 in der Auktion Old Masters Evening Sale bei Christies in London versteigert. Der dabei erzielte Preis von GBP 791.250,00 (€ 935.164,89) lag im Rahmen der Erwartungen – die Schätzpreisspanne war von dem Auktionshaus zuvor mit GBP 700.000,00 – 1.000.000,00 angegeben worden. Für andere Arbeiten von Lucas Cranach II mussten die Käufer allerdings auch schon deutlich tiefer in die Tasche greifen – das bisher höchste Auktionsergebnis haben wir für die Arbeit Portrait of a lady, three-quarter-length, in a green velvet and orange dress and a pearl-embroidered black hat beobachtet, die im Juli 2007 für GBP 1.812.000,00 (€ 2.691.238,28) versteigert wurde.
Lucas Cranach II - Auction history
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