Lot 2098 D α

Lower Rhine Region around 1480 - A Lower Rhenish carved poplar Pietà group, around 1480

Auction 1254 - overview Cologne
16.11.2024, 11:00 - Old Masters & 19th Century, Part I
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
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Lower Rhine Region around 1480

A Lower Rhenish carved poplar Pietà group, around 1480

Carved in the round, the back of the throne flattened. Minimal remains of former polychromy. Depicting the Virgin seated on a throne-like bench holding the body of Her dead Son in Her lap, designed for a frontal viewpoint. This devotional image can be brought into connection with a group of similar objects created in a workshop in the Lower Rhine region in the late 15th century.
Vertical cracks to the front. Christ's left hand, right forearm and tip of His right foot lacking. Wear throughout. Mounted on a newer wooden plinth. Height 47 cm (without plinth).

Provenance

Rhenish private collection since ca. 1960/1970. - Still in family ownership since 2002 by descent.

Literature

Exhib. cat.: Antlitz des Mittelalters. Meisterwerke spätmittelalterlicher Skulptur in rheinischem Privatbesitz, edited by R. Karrenbrock and C. Lichte, Rottweil/Aachen 1999, pp. 74-77, cat. no. 19 with ill.

Exhibitions

Dominikanermuseum Rottweil (1999) and Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen (2000)