ID 1466816
Lot 84 | Bartholomäus Spranger, Nachfolge
Estimate value
€ 12 000 – 18 000
1546 Antwerpen - 1611 Prag
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Oil on canvas. 105 x 82 cm. Relined. Restored. Minor damage to frame (117 x 98 cm).
For two other versions of the composition:
Cf. Dorotheum, Vienna, auction 15 May 1979, catalogue number 60 (with illustration): a painting by the still young artist Caspar Jele (1814 Freidsberg - 1893 Innsbruck), which, according to his signature, he painted at the age of 14 1/2. Slightly smaller in format than the work offered (91 x 70 cm), Jele renders the composition almost identically. Jele's painting is believed to be a copy, possibly after the present painting.
Another version of the composition (105 x 78 cm) was recently offered at auction. Cf. Gliubich Casa d'Aste, L'Aquila (Abruzzo), Auction 19, 30 August 2023, catalogue number 274 (with illustration): catalogued there as a work by a "Veneto painter of the first half of the 18th century."
Cf. Metzler, Sally, Bartholomeus Spranger - Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague. The Complete Works (= exhibition catalogue of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 4 November 2014 - 1 February 2015). New York 2014, page 190 f., catalogue number 103 (with illustration): Bartholomäus Spranger's drawing of the Holy Family (Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, inventory number 1982/710. The copperplate engraving by Hendrick Goltzius, which served as the inspiration for our painting, ibid., page 288, catalogue number 177 (with illustration).
Expert report: Dr. Heinrich Decker, Obereching, 24 January 1980: listed there as a work by Joseph Heintz, the Elder (1564 Basel - 1609 Prague).
Provenance: Estate of Karl Höcketstaller, Winhöring.
Auction for the benefit of the Karl and Helga Höcketstaller Foundation.
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