Portrait of Mayor Tucher of Nuremberg and his wife (The Ill-Matched Couple) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
According to the inventory of the Oettingen-Wallerstein collection from 1817-1818, Cranach's ill-matched couple, preserved in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg (panel, 86.7 x 58.5 cm, inv. Gm218), depicts Mayor Tucher of Nuremberg and his maid. It is stated that his relatives had this painting painted to mock him, which indicates that some of these paintings were indeed intended to criticize real people. The anecdote written around 1620 links it to the so-called Tucher coin oracle and to a certain Berthold Tucher, a fifty-four-year-old nobleman, and to his decision to remarry or enter the clergy. The early 17th-century copy of a lost composition by Cranach even bears the coats of arms of the Tucher and Pfinzing families (Tucher Kulturstiftung, oil on canvas, 95 x 84 cm, inv. HI Gm 049), the oldest patrician families of the imperial city of Nuremberg, in which the sitters are identified as Berthold I Tucher (1310-1379) and his wife Anna Pfinzing (ca. 1340-1381) …
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