JOHANN KÖNIG | The Conversion of Saint Paul

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December 5, 12:50 PM GMT

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10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Property from a Private Collection

JOHANN KÖNIG

Nuremberg 1586 - 1642

The Conversion of Saint Paul

signed and dated lower right: Johan: König / 1622

oil on copper

22.7 x 34.5 cm.; 9 x 13⅝ in.

Please note that the coloured pen drawing referred to in the note is in Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Museum of Art (inv. no. 1960/2.73); see B.L. Dunbar et al (eds), A corpus of Drawings in Mid-Western Collections, [II.B], Sixteenth Century Northern European Drawings, London & Turnhout 2012, no. 110, reproduced fig. 4, as Georg Beham. Its connection with the present painting, first noted by Ruth Baljöhr was independently made by Stijn Alsteens in reviewing the above, and correcting the attribution of the Ann Arbor drawing from Beham to König. Additional Literature: S. Alsteens, review of B.L. Dunbar et al (eds), A corpus of Drawings in Mid-Western Collections, [II.B], Sixteenth Century Northern European Drawings, in Master Drawings, Vol. 51, no. 1, Spring 2013, p. 111, under no. 101, reproduced fig. 5 (the Ann Arbor drawing fig. 4, as Attributed to König).

Franz Hasler, St. Gallen;

Anonymous sale, Berlin, Leo Spik, 19 March 1987, lot 463;

With Julius Böhler, Munich;

In the present collection since at least 1993.

R. Baljöhr, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 148–49, cat. no. 58, reproduced in colour p. 147.

A coloured pen drawing of this composition by König, probably preparatory to this painting, is in the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan.¹ Another drawing by the artist of a fight between a warrior and horses includes a very similar horse to the one from which Saul has fallen here.²

¹ Inv. no. 1960/2.73; see R. Munman, in A corpus of drawings in midwestern collections: Sixteenth-century Northern European Drawings, B.L. Dunbar (ed.), London and Turnhout 2012, cat. no. 101, reproduced.

² Inv. no. 3343, Albertina, Vienna; see Baljöhr 1993, reproduced p. 149, fig. 2.