Ulm Master, circa 1490-1500

Saints Elizabeth of Hungary and Clare

Estimate

350,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Connecticut Collection (Lots 315-321)

Ulm Master, circa 1490 - 1500

Saints Elizabeth of Hungary and Clare

the former inscribed on her halo: SANCTA ELISABET

the latter inscribed on her halo: SANCTA KLARA VIR[GO]

oil and gold ground on pine panel

panel: 58 ¼ by 31 in.; 150.0 by 78.7 cm.

framed: 65 ⅜ by 38 ⅛ in.; 166.1 by 96.8 cm

Lajos Ernst (1872-1937), Budapest, probably by 1931;

Baron Mór Lipót Herzog (1869-1934), Budapest, during World War II;

Thence by descent to his son, András Julian Herzog (1901-1943), Budapest;

By whom sold through Galerie St. Lucas, Vienna, 9 April 1942, to Hans Posse, acting on behalf of the collection of the museum being formed at Linz (Linz no. 3181);

Confiscated in 1945 by the Allies and sent to the Central Collecting Point, Munich (no. 4666);

Federal Ministry of Finance, by 1966;

Restituted to the heirs of Baron Herzog, 31 March 2010;

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 19 November 2011, lot 1206 (as Upper Swabian Master, circa 1510);

With Sam Fogg, London;

From whom acquired by the present collector.

A. Stange, Kritisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer: Vol. II: Oberrhein, Bodensee, Schweiz, Mittelrhein, Ulm, Augsburg, Allgäu, Nördlingen, von der Donau bis zum Neckar, Munich 1970, p. 139;

H. Hoffmann and K. Diemer, Katalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen bis 1900: Städtische Sammlungen, Braith-Mali-Museum, Biberach an der Riß 1975, pp. 18-19;

D. Bosch, Bartholomäus Zeitblom, Das Kunstlerische Werk, Ulm 1999, p. 332, cat. no. 632 (as not by Zeitblom);

B. Schwarz, Hitlers Museum: Die Fotoalben 'Gemäldegalerie Linz': Dokumente zum 'Führermuseum', exhibition catalogue, Vienna 2004, p. 170, cat. no. XXVII/4, reproduced p. 425 (as Swabian school, circa 1510);

F. Brunecker, Nazionalsozialismus in Biberach, exhibition catalogue, Biberach 2006;

T-H. Borchert, in Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings, exhibition catalogue, S. Nash (ed.), London 2011, p. 128, under cat. no. 9, reproduced fig. 4 (as Circle of Bartholomäus Zeitblom);

A. Koopstra, in Late Medieval Panel Paintings II: Materials, Methods, Meanings, exhibition catalogue, S. Nash (ed.), London 2015, pp. 151-163, cat. no. 11, reproduced (as Ulm Master, circa 1490-1500).

Biberach, Braith-Mali Museum, 1966, long-term loan (as Bartholomäus Zeitblom; lent by the Federal Ministry of Finance).