Mary Worshipping the Infant with the Young John

Markgrave Louis William of Baden-Baden (1655-1707) conquerd the Turks as a general of the imperial army in 1691. He married Sibylla of Saxe-Lauenburg (1675-1733).

With the reward of his war service in the imperial army, Louis William was able to build a new residence based on the example of Versailles. The Construction of his new palace in Rastatt on the had started in 1698.

One of the few Italian works in the Staatliche Kunsthalle is also the result of Sybilla Augusta's appreciation of southern art and architecture. Lorenzo di Credi's tondo depicting "Mary Worshipping the Infant with the Young John" (c. 1480) had been an altarpiece in the Rastatt Palace Church. These wonderful works were among the only ones to enter the Kunsthalle collection from this estate.