ID 1358497
Lot 20 | LUCAS CRANACH I (KRONACH 1472-1553 WEIMAR)
Valeur estimée
$ 1 000 000 – 2 000 000
Hercules and Omphale
signed with the artist's serpent device and dated '1532' (upper center) and inscribed 'HERCVLEIS MANIBVS DANT LYDAE PENSA PVELLAE / IMPERIVM DOMINAE FERT DEVS ILLE SVAE / SIC ECIAM INGENTES ANIMOS INSANA VOLVPTAS / ET DOMITO MOLLIS PECTORE ERANGIT AMOR' (upper center)
oil on panel, transferred to canvas
32 ¾ x 48 ¼ in. (83.3 x 122.3 cm.)
Provenance
with Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin, by 1931.
(Possibly) Wendlinger, Berlin.
Osborn Kling (1874-1953), Stockholm, by 1932.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1965, lot 43, where acquired by the following,
with Xaver Scheidwimmer, Munich, by 1966.
with Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich, where acquired in 2000 by the present owner.
Literature
M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach, Berlin, 1932, p. 70, no. 223, illustration switched with no. 224.
Die Weltkunst, XXXVI, Munich, 1 April 1964, cover.
W. Schade, Die Malerfamilie Cranach, Dresden, 1974, p. 463, no. 177.
D. Koepplin and T. Falk, Lukas Cranach, I, Basel, 1974, pp. 245-246, under nos. 144 and 145.
M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, Ithaca, 1978, p. 123, no. 272.
C. Grimm, ed., Lucas Cranach. Ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken, exhibition catalogue, Augsburg, 1994, p. 361, under no. 188 (e).
C. Zilka, Exorcising our demons: magic, witchcraft, and visual culture in early modern Europe, Leiden, 2002, p. 362, fig. 56.
G. Baumbach, `“SIC ECIAM INGENTES ANIMOS INSANA VOLVPTAS" - Die Herkules-und-Omphale-Darstellungen der Cranach-Werkstatt und ein Gemälde Lucas Cranachs d.J. für Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg’, in A. Tacke, ed., "... wir wollen der Liebe Raum geben": Konkubinate geistlicher und weltlicher Fürsten um 1500, Göttingen, 2006, p. 391.
J. Howard, Cranach, Colnaghi, ed., London, 2009, p. 8, fig. 6.
R. Rowland, Killing Hercules: Deianira and the Politics of Domestic Violence, from Sophocles to the War of Terror, New York, 2017, p. 114.
K.A.E. Enenkel, Theatre of sexual attraction and psychological destruction: the myth of Hercules and Omphale in the visual arts, 1500-1800, Leiden, 2025, pp. 68-70, fig. 1A.
| Artiste: | Lucas Cranach I (1472 - 1553) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Huile sur panneau |
| Genre: | Peinture mythologique |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, Allemagne |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures |
| Artiste: | Lucas Cranach I (1472 - 1553) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Huile sur panneau |
| Genre: | Peinture mythologique |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, Allemagne |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures |
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