Christoph Amberger

Provenance

Commissioned by the sitter's husband Mathias Schwartz (1497– c. 1574) to commemorate her birthday on the 21st August 1542
possibly Ferdinand August Hartmann (probably the painter Christian Ferdinand Hartmann (1774–1842),
Dresden, together with the companion portrait of the sitter's husband
by descent to Johann Gottlob von Quandt (1787–1859), Dresden
Von Ritzenberg collection, Schloss Nischwitz, near Wurzen, Saxony, until 1870
Richard Freiherr von Friesen (1808–1884), Dresden, together with pendant
his posthumous sale, Lempertz and Heberle, Cologne, 26 March 1885, nr. 3, for DM 6,500
here acquired by Dr. Martin Schubart (1840–1899), Dresden and later Munich, together with pendant
his posthumous sale, Helbing, Munich, 23 October 1899, nr. 3, together with pendant for DM 51,000
where acquired by Colnaghi, London
Leopold Hirsch (1857–1932), 10 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, by 1906, together with pendant
his posthumous sale London, Christie's, 11 May 1934, nr. 89, for 1,500 guineas, to Heinemann
with Arnold Seligmann, New York and London, 1936
with Kurt Meissner, Zurich, 1953
acquired in 1976 by a private collector
Sotheby’s, London, 5 July 2017, nr. 7
with Agnews, 2022