Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder, early 17th Century

Venus with Cupid stealing honey | 《採蜜的維納斯與丘比特》

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Property from the Schuybroek Collection

Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder, early 17th Century

Venus with Cupid stealing honey

bears Cranach's winged serpent device, and dated 1530

Inscribed in a panel upper left:

CVM PVER ALVEOLO FVRATVR MELLA CVPIDO

FVPANTI DIGITVM SEDVIA PVNXIT APIS

SIC ETIAM NOBIS BREVIS ET MORITVRA VOLVEAS

QVAM PETIMVS TRISTI MIXTA NOCET

oil on oak panel

37.8 x 25.2 cm.; 14⅞ x 9⅞ in.

舒布魯克典藏

老魯克斯・克拉納赫之追隨者，十七世紀初

《採蜜的維納斯與丘比特》

款識：具克拉納赫之翼蛇標記，紀年1530

藝術家於畫板題款CVM PVER ALVEOLO FVRATVR MELLA CVPIDO

FVPANTI DIGITVM SEDVIA PVNXIT APIS

SIC ETIAM NOBIS BREVIS ET MORITVRA VOLVEAS

QVAM PETIMVS TRISTI MIXTA NOCET（左上）

油彩橡木畫板

37.8 x 25.2 公分；14⅞ x 9⅞ 英寸

Probably the Emperor Rudolph II, Prague, where to be identified in his inventory of 1612 as no. 1138 or 1293;

Looted by the Swedes after the sack of Prague, 1648;

Queen Christina of Sweden, and listed in the 1652 inventory of her collection as no. 167 or 217;

Ugglas of Forsmark;

Countess Elisabeth Björnstjerna;

C. M. Björnstjerna;

Marie Björnstjerna, Stockholm;

Count Carl Björnstjerna, in 1966;

Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Christie’s, 30 November 1979, lot 71 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder), for £75,000, where acquired by Jean Schuybroek.

O. Granberg, Les Trésors d’Art en Suède, 1911–13, 3, p. 246;

Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, Christina Queen of Sweden, 29 June – 16 October 1966, cat. no. 1289, p. 513.

M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London 1978, p. 118, no. 246D;

J. Herbert (ed.), Christie's Review of the Season 1980, London 1980, p. 47, reproduced (as Lucas Cranach the Elder).