Master of the Life of the Virgin - Madonna with Child and St. Bernard of Clairvaux - image-1

Lot 2006 Dα

Master of the Life of the Virgin - Madonna with Child and St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Auction 1097 - overview Cologne
18.11.2017, 11:00 - Old Master Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 16.120 € (incl. premium)
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Master of the Life of the Virgin

Madonna with Child and St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Oil on panel. 41 x 30 cm.

The present work is traditionally attributed to the "Master of the Aachen Life of the Virgin". This unknown painter was active in the last third of the 15th century, probably in Cologne. His notname derives from the wings of the main altarpiece in the choir of Aachen Minster, painted around 1485 and depicting eight scenes from the life of the Virgin.

Provenance

Johann Heinrich Hubert Steenaerts (1822 - presumably 1868), Hofjuwelier in Aachen. - His son Joseph Steenaerts. - Collection of Pfarrer März, Eschfeld bei Prüm. - 1926 to his brother Dr. März, Düsseldorf. - Purchased from the former in 1940, henceforth in a Rhenish private collection.

Literature

On the März collection cf.: Paul Clemen (ed.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz 12.2. Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Prüm, bearb. v. Ernst Wackenroder, Düsseldorf 1927, p. 72-73.