The Holy Kinship

Details

Attributed to the Master of Kirchheim (German, active c. 1500)
The Holy Kinship
oil and gold on panel
11¼ x 7½ in. (28.6 x 19.1 cm.)
inscribed 'Ioachin. .Cleophas. .Salomas.' (upper edge)

Provenance

The Wittelsbach Princes and Electors of Bavaria (according to a label on the reverse).
Nikodem Caro (1871-1935), Berlin, and by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The Master of Kirchheim is named after an Altarpiece of the Holy Kinship that was originally placed in the St. Anne chapel of the Kirchheim Cloisters near Nördlingen. An old label on the reverse (fig. 1), indicates that this panel was once part of the collection of House of Wittelsbach.

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