ID 863075
Lot 18 | DANUBIAN OR LOWER AUSTRIAN ARTIST, CIRCA 1520–1530
Estimate value
£ 120 000 – 180 000
The Coronation of the Virgin
parcel-gilt and polychrome limewood relief; with paper label to the reverse detailing ownership and attribution
56 1/4 in. (143 cm.) high
45 1/8 in. (114.5 cm.) wide
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) deep
Provenance
Harry Fuld (1879-1932), Frankfurt am Main, in his family since 1912, and by descent until sold to the following on 2 December 1974,
with F.K.A. Huelsmann, Hamburg, 1975.
Baron Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, and by descent.
Literature
A Radcliffe, M. Baker and M. Maek-Gérard, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection of Renaissance and later sculpture, with works of art in bronze, London, 1992, no. 71, pp. 364-371.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
H. Thoma, Hans Leinberger, seine Stadt – seine Zeit – sein Werk, Regensburg 1979.
M. Baxandall, The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany, New Haven and London, 1980.
Exhibited
Lopud Monastery, Lopud Island, Croatia, March 2019 – July 2022.
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| Medium: | Wood |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Austria, Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures |
| Medium: | Wood |
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| Art style: | Renaissance |
| Place of origin: | Austria, Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures |
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