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View full screen - View 1 of Lot 45. ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF MICHAEL PACHER (CIRCA 1435-1498), AUSTRIAN, TYROL, LATE 15TH CENTURY | RELIEF OF A MALE SAINT, POSSIBLY SAINT JOHN.

ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF MICHAEL PACHER (CIRCA 1435-1498), AUSTRIAN, TYROL, LATE 15TH CENTURY | RELIEF OF A MALE SAINT, POSSIBLY SAINT JOHN

Auction Closed

July 2, 02:29 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

ATTRIBUTED TO THE WORKSHOP OF MICHAEL PACHER (CIRCA 1435-1498)

AUSTRIAN, TYROL, LATE 15TH CENTURY

RELIEF OF A MALE SAINT, POSSIBLY SAINT JOHN


gilt and polychromed wood, on a later wood base

figure: 78cm., 30⅝in.

base: 4.8cm., 1⅞in.

With Reinhold Hofstätter, Vienna

The fleshy facial features, hairstyle and crinkled folds of drapery compare closely to figures from Michael Pacher's Altarpiece at St Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, see T. Müller, Gotik in Tirol, Bozen, 1976, figs. 122-124 and pl. XXVII.