LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER 1472-1553
The Young Christ adored by Saint John the Baptist, 1534

signed lower left with the artist's device of a winged serpent with elevated wings, and dated: 1534

oil on panel, 35.2 x 23.2 cm.; 13⅞ x 9⅛ in.

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Provenance
(probably collection M. Benito Garriga, Madrid)
(probably his sale Hotel Drouot, Paris, 24 March 1890, Lot 2)
Edward R. Bacon (1848–1915), New York
Albert Keller (1879–1939), New York, by 1928
Mr and Mrs Drury W. Cooper, New Jersey, by circa 1935–40
Thence by descent to John M. Cooper (b. 1939), Princeton
By whom anonymously sold, New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1995, lot 10
Where acquired for a private collection, USA
Whence sold (‘Property from an American Private Collection’), New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2016, lot 14 (sold for 850,000 USD)
There acquired by a private collector
Sotheby's, London, 8 December 2021, Lot 3, withdrawn as the consignment agreement was never signed by the owner
Hampel auctions, Munich, 29 June 2023, Lot 178 (sold for 971,000 Euro)

Catalogue raisonée
Max J. Friedländer und Jakob Rosenberg: Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach, Berlin 1932, no. 184. Max J. Friedländer und Jakob Rosenberg: Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach, Basel und Stuttgart 1979, no. 222.

Exhibited
Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Lucas Cranach der Altere: Meister, Marke, Moderne, 8. April – 30 Juli 2017, no. 82.