Master Paintings Part I
Master Paintings Part I
Property from a Connecticut Collection (Lots 315-321)
Saints Wenceslas and Ludmila of Bohemia; Saints James the Lesser and Vitus
Auction Closed
February 6, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Connecticut Collection (Lots 315-321)
Master of Eggenburg
active in Lower Austria, last quarter of the fifteenth century
Saints Wenceslas and Ludmila of Bohemia;
Saints James the Lesser and Vitus
inscribed in Saint James' halo: SANCTUS JACOBUS MAGNUS
a pair, both oil and gold ground on spruce panel
each panel: 26 ⅝ by 16 ⅛ in.; 67.6 by 41.0 cm
each framed: 30 ½ by 19 ¾ in.; 77.5 by 50.2 cm
Private collection, until 1997;
Thereafter acquired by Sam Fogg, London;
From whom acquired by Robert McCarthy, London;
With Sam Fogg, London;
From whom acquired by the present collector, 2005.
O. Kotková, Illustrated Summary Catalogue, Old European Art, German and Austrian Painting of the 14th-16th Centuries. National Gallery in Prague, Prague 2007, p. 106;
M.W. Ainsworth, in German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350-1600, M.W. Ainsworth and J.P. Waterman (eds.), New Haven 2013, p. 204, under cat. nos. 48A, 48B, reproduced figs. 162, 163.
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