Attributed to Girolamo da Santacroce
The Young Mercury Stealing Cattle from the Herd of Apollo
1530 - 1550107 x 103 cm
Oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Provenance
Purchased from the dealer Luigi Grassi, Florence, by Prof. Dr Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam, 1919
his widow, Anna Theresia Elisabeth Lanz - Willi (1870 - 1954), Amsterdam, 1935
from whom, CHF 2,000,000 and fl. 350,000, with other paintings, to Hans Posse (1879-1942), for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer N. Katz, 1941
war recuperation, SNK, 29 March 1946 (inv. no. NK 2318)
on loan from the SNK to the museum, 1948 (inv. no. SK-C-1379)
transferred to the museum, 1960