CIRCLE OF FRIEDRICH PACHER (SOUTH TYROL, C. 1435 - AFTER 1508 BRUNECK) AND MICHAEL PACHER (TYROL, C. 1435 - 1498 SALZBURG)

Lot 19
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Lot 19 | CIRCLE OF FRIEDRICH PACHER (SOUTH TYROL, C. 1435 - AFTER 1508 BRUNECK) AND MICHAEL PACHER (TYROL, C. 1435 - 1498 SALZBURG)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
CIRCLE OF FRIEDRICH PACHER (SOUTH TYROL, C. 1435 - AFTER 1508 BRUNECK) AND MICHAEL PACHER (TYROL, C. 1435 - 1498 SALZBURG)
A triptych: the central panel: The Virgin and Child with musical angels; the wings: the inner faces: Saint Catherine of Alexandria; Saint Barbara; the outer faces: The Annunciation
oil and gold on panel, the wings in engaged frames
closed: 18 5/8 x 15 1/8 in. (47.4 x 38.5 cm.).; open: 18 5/8 x 30 ¾ in. (47.4 x 78 cm.); the central panel: 16 x 12 1/8 in. (40.2 x 30.6 cm.)
inscribed ‘Ave maria Gr’ (on the outer wing, on the Archangel Gabriel’s banderole)




Provenance

Johann Peter Weyer (1794-1864), Cologne.
Achillito Chiesa, Milan; his sale, part IV, American Art Association, New York, 23 November 1927 (2nd day), lot 112, as 'School of Cologne'.
with Kleinberger, Paris and New York, 1928, acquired at the above sale (inv. no. 15911).
William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), Hearst Castle, San Simeon, California, acquired from the above, August 1935, as 'Master of the Holy Kinship'.
with Paul Drey Gallery, until circa 1951.
with Paula de Koenigsberg, Buenos Aires, until 1961.
Private collection, Europe, by 1961, and by whom sold,
[Property from a European Private Collection]; Christie's, London, 6 December 2018, lot 10 as 'Upper Rhine School, circa 1480', where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

Art Objects & Furnishings from the William Randolph Hearst Collection: A Catalogue Raisonné comprising illustrations of representative works, New York, 1941, p. 26, no. 1247-4, central panel illustrated, as 'Master of the Holy Kinship'.
Listed in the William Randolph Hearst Archive (the original held at Long Island University, New York), XX, p. 13, as 'The Master of the Holy Kinship'.
A. Simon, Österreichische Tafelmalerei der Spätgotik: der niederländische Einfluß im 15. Jahrhundert, Berlin, 2002, pp. 274-276, pl. 45.



Exhibited

New York, Kleinberger Galleries, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives, 1928, no. 12, as 'The Master of the Holy Kinship'.
Buenos Aires, Museo Municipal de Arte Hispano Americano, Exposición de obras maestras, siglos XII al XVII: colección Paula de Koenigsberg, May-July 1951, no. 16, as 'The Master of the Holy Kinship'.
Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum; Münster, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Sammlung Heinz Kisters: Altedeutsche une Altniederländische Gemälde, 25 June-17 November 1963, no. 57, as 'Tiroler Meister um 1480'.
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