Meister der Seitenstettener Stephanslegende, attributed to
Saints Andrew and Wolfgang
Oil on panel (parquetted). Each 76 x 51 cm.
The two panels, which come from the same altarpiece, show full figure depictions of the saints Andrew and Wolfgang standing in front of brocade curtains, with the cross and axe and church model as their attributes.
In his expertise, Bernd Konrad refers to a group of stylistically related panel paintings from the years around 1500/1515 from the surroundings of the monastery of Seitenstetten in Lower Austria, which are attributed to the so-called "Master of the Seitenstetten Legend of St. Stephen". Konrad dates our pair of paintings to the years around 1510.
Certificate
Dr. Bernd Konrad, Reichenau 6.11.2022.
Provenance
Collection of Franz Trau, Vienna. - His sale by Gilhofer und Ranschburg, auction LXXIII, Vienna 26.-30.4.1937, lot 559-560. - Fischer auction 204, Lucerne, 1970, lots 2275a and b. - Fischer auction 213, Lucerne 1972, lots 401a and b. - Private collection, Switzerland.
Literature
For comparison see Bernd Konrad: Rosgartenmuseum Konstanz. Die Kunstwerke des Mittelalters, ed. by Elisabeth von Gleichenstein, Konstanz 1993, p. 50 (under no. 1.10 the St. Christopher from the workshop of the Master of the Seitenstetten Legend of St. Stephen).