Young Mercury Stealing Cattle from the Herd of Apollo, Girolamo da Santacroce (ca.1480-1556) (attributed to), 1530 - 1550

…; purchased from the dealer Luigi Grassi, Florence, by Prof. Dr Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam, 1919;{Note RMA; Amsterdam 1934, no. 63.} his widow, Anna Theresia Elisabeth Lanz - Willi (1870 - 1954), Amsterdam, 1935; from whom, CHF 2,000,000 and fl. 350,000, with xx other paintings, to Hans Posse (1879-1942), for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer N. Katz, 1941;{Van Os 1978, p. 167.} war recuperation, SNK, 29 March 1946 (inv. no. NK 2318);{Provenance from 1934 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; MCCP website, file card no. 9808.} on loan from the SNK to the museum, 1948 (inv. no. SK-C-1379); transferred to the museum, 1960

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