Sale 6229
London
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14 December 1999
Price realised
GBP 19,550
Estimate
A PARCEL-GILT POLYCHROME CARVED WOOD RELIEF OF THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI CIRCLE OF PEDRO MORETO (ACTIVE CIRCA 1530-1555), circa 1550 In a later elaborately carved wood frame. Very minor damages and restorations. 23 x 21.5/8 in. (58.4 x 54.9 cm.)
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Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: G. Weise, Die Plastik der Renaissance und des Frhbarock in Nrdlichen Spanien, Tubingen, 1959, II, pp. 28-31, pls. 50-55. M. Trusted, Spanish Sculpture, London, 1996, no. 56.
Based in Saragossa, Pedro Moreto took over the workshop of his father, the sculptor Juan Moreto, at the time of the latter's death sometime before 1551. Pedro is known to have executed or collaborated upon a number of altarpieces in the region around Saragossa, including the high altars of the parish churches of Ibdes and Lumbier. Stylistically, the present relief is very closely related to reliefs from both these altars, as well as the high altar formerly in the parish church of Vera de Moncayo, attributed by Weise to the workshop of Pedro Moreto (Weise, loc. cit.).
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