Austrian School, circa 1480

A Triptych: central panel: The Crucifixion with the Magdalen at the foot of the cross; wings: Saints Michael and George; outer faces: The Annunciation

Details

Austrian School, circa 1480
A Triptych: central panel: The Crucifixion with the Magdalen at the foot of the cross; wings: Saints Michael and George; outer faces: The Annunciation
oil and gold on panel
41 x 53½ in. (104.1 x 135.8 cm.) open;
41 x 26½ in. (104.1 x 67.3 cm.) closed

Provenance

Dr. Feldman.
with Karl Loevenich, New York, 1936.

Literature

C.L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American collections, Cambridge, 1936, pl. LXIII, fig. 317.

Exhibited

Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Exhibition of Dutch, Flemish and German Old Master Paintings, 1956, no. 19.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Mr. Ludwig Meyer for the attribution. He compares the triptych with the work of the Master of the Crucifixion, who is thought to have lived in Vienna and was a follower of the Master of the Schotten Altar II. The central panel of the present triptych has some stylistic similarities with an altarpiece by the Master of the Crucifixion in the Augustiner-Chorherrenstift Gallery at St. Florian, near Linz (A. Stange, Deutsche Malerei der Gothik, XI, Munich/Berlin, 1961, pl. 94).

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