Swabia ca.1500 - A Swabian carved limewood figure of a praying man, around 1500 - image-1

Lot 2110 Dα

Swabia ca.1500 - A Swabian carved limewood figure of a praying man, around 1500

Auction 1231 - overview Cologne
18.11.2023, 11:00 - Old Masters and 19th Century, Part I
Estimate: 2.000 € - 2.500 €
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Swabia ca.1500

A Swabian carved limewood figure of a praying man, around 1500

Carved three-quarters in the round, the reverse flattened. With older polychromy. Depicting a man with his hands clasped in prayer behind a shrub in which the truncated arm and sleeve of a further figure are concealed. Presumably a fragmentarily preserved donor portrait from a larger relief.
Wear with minor losses. A small breakage and a drilled hole to the lower centre. Height 24.5 cm, depth 6 cm.

Provenance

Collection Dr. Hubert Wilm, Munich. - Sold in the 435th Lempertz auction, Cologne 3.12.1952, lot 80. - By succession to the present owner.

Literature

Julius Baum, Adolf Feulner: Sammlung Hubert Wilm (Ausstellung im Kunstverein München), 1931, no. 44.

Exhibitions

Nuremberg 1924 (on loan from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum).