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Lot 3010 - A202 Old Master Paintings - Friday, 23. September 2022, 02.00 PM

LUCERNE MASTER, CIRCA 1513

Panel of the Altarpiece of the Mantzet family with the Crucifixion. 1513.
Oil on panel.
Dated and inscribed centre bottom: 1513. ICH WAR DER STUND.
86 × 67 cm.

Provenance:
- Collection of "Maler Egli", Lucerne, probably Karl Martin Eglin (1787–1850), until circa 1825.
- Collection of Schultheiss Niklaus Friedrich von Mülinen (1760–1833).
- Sale Svensk-Franska, Stockholm, 6.12.1922, Lot 102 (as Cologne school).
-Acquired at the above auction by the art historian Dr Hans Schneider-Christ (1888–1953), Basel, for his parents-in-law, private collection of Hans Christ-Merian and Mathilde Christ-Merian, until 1954 (label verso).
- By descent, private collection, Switzerland.

Exhibited:
- Malmö 1926, Utställing av en Samlin äldre Malningar, Museum malmö, 1926, no. 24.
- Basel 1928, Ausstellung von Kunstwerken des 15. bis 18. Jhs. aus Basler Privatbesitz, Kunstverein Basel, 15.4–28.5.1928, no. 18, plate VIII.
- Basel 1957, Basler Privatbesitz, Kunstverein Basel, 4.7.–29.9.1957, no. 27.

Literature:
- Ulrich Hegner: Hans Holbein d. J., 1828, pp. 121ff.
- Walter Hugelshofer: Einige Luzerner Maler im 1. Viertel des 16. Jahrhunderts, in: Festschrift für Robert Durrer, vol. 83, 1928, pp. 321–325, plate XXIII.
- R. Durrer and P. Hilber: Diepold Schilling Luzerner Bildchronik 1513, Geneva 1932, pp. 229–231, plate 405 (as Meister Hans von Arx).
- Alfred A. Schmid: Luzerner Malerei, in: Journal des Arts, XI, 1946 (ill.).
- Uta Bergmann: Jörg Keller. Ein Luzerner Bildschnitzer der Spätgotik, Luzerner Historische Veröffentlichungen, vol. 28, Luzern/Stuttgart 1994, Text pp. 308–312, fig. 276 (as Christoph Bockstorffer (?), 1513).

CHF 25 000 / 35 000 | (€ 25 770 / 36 080)


Sold for CHF 30 800 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.