The Master of the Marientafeln (active ?Würzburg, circa 1470-1480)

The Annunciation

Details

The Master of the Marientafeln (active ?Würzburg, circa 1470-1480)
The Annunciation
oil on panel
43 1/8 x 35 3/8 in. (109.5 x 89.8 cm.)

Provenance

with Galerie Meissner, Zurich, by 1958
Private collection, Switzerland, by 1978.
Wewalka Collection, Vienna.
Dr. Peter Hierzenberger, Vienna; Sotheby's, London, 4 April 1984, lot 3, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

A. Stange, Deutsche Malerei der Gotik, IX, 1958, p. 112, pls. 230-1.
A. Stange, Kritische Verzeichnis der Deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer, III, 1978, p. 217, under no. 312.

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Lot Essay

This panel, one of the few attributed to this Master, once formed a part of an altarpiece dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Other panels are in Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie (inv. nos. 2017 and 2018), Wrzburg, Martin-von-Wagner Museum (K 169, F 589), Bremen, Kunsthalle and Fischer, Lucerne, November 1983, lot 2074. An alternative hypothesis, based on the information that the panels are of Swiss pine (Zirbelholz), suggests an Alpine origin; Ludwig Meyer has proposed that on stylistic grounds the group may be closer to the Memmingen workshop of the Strigel family of artists, in the Swabian Alps. We are grateful to Mr. Meyer for his assistance in cataloguing this lot, on the basis of photographs.

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