BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
Lot Closed
July 9, 02:32 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
CIRCLE OF ADAM KRAFT (1455 - CIRCA 1509)
GERMAN, FRANCONIA, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
RELIEF WITH THE LAST SUPPER
stone, on a modern metal stand
relief: 49 by 42cm., 19¼ by 16½in.
base: 1 by 43cm.,⅜ by 16⅞in.
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Edouard Leonardi, Paris, sold May 1938;
Wessbecher Collection;
thence by descent;
Sotheby's London, 8 July 2005, lot 19
For a similar composition, see the Last Supper relief by the early 16th-century German sculptor Franz Maidburg, a pupil of Riemenschneider, in the Schnütgen Museum, Cologne, inv. no. K178.
RELATED LITERATURE
C. Lichte (ed.), Tilman Riemenschneider: Werke seiner Blütezeit, exh. cat. Mainfränkisches Museum, Würzburg, 2004, p. 354, fig. 307