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Lot 1464 Dα

A cast lead relief with a beggar

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 938 € (incl. premium)
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A cast lead relief with a beggar

Depicting a figure with a beggar's staff and one foot in a wine barrel, behind him a vat of grapes and empty barrels before ruins and a woodland on the left. With an older, presumably original, drilled mounting hole in the upper centre. H 4.1 cm, W 6.2 cm.
Nuremberg, after a model by Peter Flötner, ca. 1535.

The plaque is one of a series of eight depictions entitled "Bacchus and the Consequences of Drunkenness". In Behaim's catalogue, the progression is described as follows: "How Bacchus or drunkenness makes a person envious, angry, foolish, sour, sick and a beggar, and finally also kills him. In 8 pieces (...)" Ingrid Weber has found numerous comparable pieces, cast in both bronze and lead, in museum collections in Germany, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Basel, Budapest and Cambridge.

Provenance

South German private collection.

Literature

In Weber, Deutsche, Niederländische und Französische Renaissanceplaketten 1500 - 1650, Munich 1975, no. 35,7 (this example from the Clemens collection, now the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne).