David and Bathsheba
Made in: 1526
By: Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 - 1533)
Material: Oil on limewood
Extra info:
45 ¼ x 31 ¼ in. (115 x 79.3 cm.)
Sold for: 4.8 million pounds (€5.3 million - $7.3 million)
Estimate:
At: Tefaf
March 14th 2010
Bought by:
Sold by: Last year Konrad Bernheimer exhibited Lucas Cranach the Elder's 1534 painting of David and Bathsheba, which he had acquired eight months earlier for £2.1 million, and asked £4.6 million for it, without success. This year he sold it with an asking price of £4.8 million, demonstrating both how long it can take to sell a picture and how the market is improving. (Telegraph.co.uk )
Provenance: William Anthony, London; from whom acquired by James Whatman, M.P. (1813-1887) on 6 June 1848, for £40; Anon. Sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), Christie’s, London, 11 July 1980, lot 96 (as by Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop); With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., from whom acquired by Dr. Peter Nathan, Zurich; Galerie Francesca, Zurich, from whom acquired by a private collector in 1981.
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