The Deposition

Details

School of Constance, circa 1460-5
The Deposition
on gold ground panel
47 1/8 x 26½ in. (119.7 x 67.4 cm.)
with inventory numbers 'M[...]' and '.M. 455.' (lower right)

Provenance

Professor Dr. Alexander Schnütgen (1843-1918), Cologne, by whom given to the
Schnütgen-Museum, Cologne, 1906 (no. M455), as South German (Bohemian?); from where transferred in 1925 to the
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, until 1943 (no. 819), when bought by
Heinz Kisters, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, until after 1970.
Anonymous sale; Lempertz, Cologne, 17 November 1972, lot 187, as South German.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Lady]; Christie's, London, 12 December 1980, lot 46, as South German School, circa 1450-1500.

Literature

Wallraff-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Die Gemälde der altdeutschen Meister I, Cologne, 1939, no. 819, fig. 160, as Southern German, second half of the 15th century.
A. Strange, Deutsche Malerei der Gotik, Frankfurt, 1955, VII, p. 44.
A. Strange, Kritisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer, II, no. 250a, as attributed to Hans Mürer the Elder.
C. Grimm and B. Konrad, Die Fürstenberg-Sammlungen in Donaueschingen: altdeutsche und schweizerische Malerei des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, Munich, 1990, p. 42, illustrated p. 44.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Mr. Ludwig Meyer for his assistance with the cataloguing of the present lot. He suggests that this panel is the left wing of a retable; the middle panel of which would have depicted The Crucifixion and the right The Entombment, now in the Historisches Museum, Frankfurt. The distinctive black and gold border can also be seen in The Entombment.

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