A carved wooden relief of the lamentation of the crucified Christ

BY ANTOINE MARIE MLOTTE (1722-1795), LIGE, 18TH CENTURY

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A carved wooden relief of the lamentation of the crucified Christ
By Antoine Marie Mlotte (1722-1795), Lige, 18th Century
Mary, Mary Magdalen and Saint John the Evangelist mourning the crusified Christ on Golgotha, in the background the retreating Roman soldiers, signed A MELOTTE SCULP, within an ebonised later frame, minor damages and various cracks
95cm. high x 59cm. wide

Provenance

Thence by descent.

Lot Essay

Antoine Marie Mlotte was born in Lige on 5 september 1722. He was a pupil of Jean Simon Cognoulle (1687-1744). In 1739 he is first registered in the Guild of Carpenters in Lige and in 1746 he is mentioned as a 'marchand sculpteur'.

A relief of an equestrian battle by Mlotte was sold at Sotheby's London, 16 December 1998, lot 139 (12,000 UK pounds).

According to family tradition this relief was part of the collection of the counts De Marchant et D'Ansembourg at Chateau de Hex and later transferred to their Chateau de Neubourg in Gulpen.

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