An ill-matched Pair

An ill-matched Pair

Title

An ill-matched Pair

[cda 2024]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Neumeister online, accessed 10.01.2024]

Thematically, the depiction corresponds to the well-known versions of the ‘Ill-matched Pair’: A young woman looks affectionately at the old man while taking coins from his purse. He is clearly distracted by an emotional turmoil, which he shares with us by looking out of the painting, and therefore does not

Thematically, the depiction corresponds to the well-known versions of the ‘Ill-matched Pair’: A young woman looks affectionately at the old man while taking coins from his purse. He is clearly distracted by an emotional turmoil, which he shares with us by looking out of the painting, and therefore does not notice the theft. In its present state only the heads, the bust of the young woman and three hands are visible against a dark background. The remaining surface is overlaid with mother-of-pearl overlay. This application can be traced back to 1858 but might be earlier.

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Attributions
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

In the inventories of 1722-28, 1741 and 1858 of the Royal Collection, Dresden, listed as copy after Cranach, see: [Neumeister online, accessed 10.01.2024];
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Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

In 1860 listed among paintings from the Royal Collection in Dresden to be auctioned, see: [Neumeister online, accessed 10.01.2024]

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Neumeister online, accessed 10.01.2024]; [Auct. Cat. Munich 1974, lot 1364]

Production date
after 1535

Production date

after 1535

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Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 42.5 x 26.3 cm

Dimensions

Signature / Dating

none

Inscriptions and Labels

Reverse of the panel: - at the bottom left: wax seal from the 'Königlichen Gemälde-Galerie, Dresden'

  • at the top centre: …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel: - at the bottom left: wax seal from the 'Königlichen Gemälde-Galerie, Dresden'

    • at the top centre: handwritten and encircled: '5597'
    • on the brown paper covering the edges, on the righthand side: in pencil: 'from the Royal Collection (Saxony)'

  • [cda 2024]

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P641
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P641/

Provenance

  • Royal Painting Collection, Dresden (Königliche Gemälde-Galerie Dresden) as follows:
  • Johann Adam Steinhäuser, Inventar 1722-28 (manuscript, SKD archive, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Nr. 356), Inv.-Nr. B 120: copy after Lucas Cranach. From the 'Kunstcamm.' (= Kunstkammer). (The painting was probably part of the art cabinet created by Elector August of Saxony in 1560, however this cannot be verified due to the lack of detail in the inventory.)
  • Johann Adam Steinhäuser, Inventar 1741 / "Steinhäusers Inventar" (manuscript, SKD archive, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Nr. 357), Inv.-Nr. 120: copy after Lucas Cranach
  • Royal Painting Colllection, Dresden (Königliche Gemäldegalerie Dresden), Inventar "Vorrat" (1858), Inv.-Nr. 244: copy after Cranach
  • in 1860 listed among paintings from the collection to be auctioned (Verzeichnis der aus den Vorräthen der Kgl. Gemälde-Galerie zu Dresden den 16. April 1860 [...] zu versteigernden Oelgemälde, durch Carl Gotthelf Bautzmann, Kgl. Bücher-Auctionator und Taxator. Dresden 1860, S. 13, Kat.-Nr. 81), as school of Cranach
  • Neumeister, Munich, Auction 152, 13/15.03.1974, lot 1364 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder)
  • private collection, Southern Germany (Estate of the buyer from 1974)
  • sold at Neumeister, Munich, 20.09.2023, lot 555
    [Neumeister online, accessed 10.01.2024]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005 539
EditorHarald Marx, Karin Kolb, Ingrid Mössinger
TitleCranach Anlässlich der Ausstellung Cranach vom 13. November 2005 bis 12. März 2006 in den Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Eine Ausstellung in Kooperation mit der Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication2005
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Kolb 2005 C 539
AuthorKarin Kolb
TitleDokumentation zum Dresdener Cranach-Bestand
Publicationin Harald Marx, Ingrid Mössinger, Karin Kolb, eds., Cranach. Gemälde aus Dresden, Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication2005
Pages526-572
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Auct. Cat. Munich 1974 1364
EditorAuktionshaus Neumeister, Munich
TitleAuktionshaus Neumeister, München, Auktion 152, 13.-15. März 1974
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication1974
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Research History / Discussion

For a discussion of the mother-of-pearl overlay and the provenance see [Neumeister online, accessed 10.01.2024]

  • An ill-matched Pair, after 1535

Images

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Technical studies

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2023Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • UV-light photography

Versions

Ill-matched Pair
  • Ill-matched Pair, about 1530 - 1535
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P443
  • Painting
  • Private Collection
Ill-matched Couple
  • Ill-matched Couple, about 1800-1899
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P313
  • Painting
  • Private Collection
Ill-matched Pair
  • Ill-matched Pair, after 1550
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P568
  • Painting
  • Private Collection

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