ID 1344891
Lot 151 | JOHANN HAUSSER VON ACH (ACTIVE ASCHAFFENBURG AND MAINZ 1603-1612)
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
The Adoration of the Shepherds
signed 'IAN HAVSER / VŌ. ACH' (lower centre, on the manger) and dated '1603' (lower left, on the rock)
oil on copper
15 5/8 x 11 7/8 in. (39.7 x 30.2 cm.)
inscribed 'GLORIA EXCELSIS DE[O]...' (upper centre, on the banner)
Provenance
Dr. Alfred Peltzer (1875-1914), Berlin, by 1908.
Kerstin Peltzer (according to an inscription on the reverse).
Anonymous sale [Property of a New York Philanthropist]; The Potomack Company, Virginia, 6 October 2020, lot 505, as 'Jan Hausser von Aachen, possibly Hans von Aachen'.
Literature
R.A. Peltzer, 'Hans Hausser von Aachen', in T. von Frimmel, ed., Blätter für Gemäldekunde, IV, Vienna, 1908, pp. 130, 132 and 134, illustrated, as Hans von Aachen'.
R.A. Peltzer, 'Der Hofmaler Hans von Aachen, seine Schule und seine Zeit', Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, XXX, no. 3, 1912, p. 60, note 9.
H. Vollmer, ed., Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, XVI, Leipzig, 1923, p. 150.
H. Geissler, Zeichnung in Deutschland. Deutsche Zeichner 1540-1640, exhibition catalogue, II, Stuttgart, 1979, p. 56.
T. DaCosta Kauffman, Art and Architecture in Central Europe 1550-1620 - an annotated bibliography, Marburg, 2003, p. 119.
| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
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| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
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| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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