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Property From a Connecticut Collection

Circle of Hans Leonhard Schäufelein

Annunciation; Agony in the Garden

Live auction begins on:

February 6, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

Bid

22,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property From a Connecticut Collection

Circle of Hans Leonhard Schäufelein

Annunciation; Agony in the Garden


oil on panel transferred to canvas laid down on panel, double-sided

painted surface: 32 ¾ by 27 ½ in.; 83.2 by 69.8 cm

including frame: 37 by 32 ⅛ in.; 94.0 by 81.6 cm

Formerly on the high altar of the Parish Church of St. Martin, Gemmingen, Baden-Württemberg (Gemmingen, Evangelische Pfarrkirche);

Unterschloss Gemmingen, from at least 1909 (almost certainly moved there when the church was rebuilt in 1846) and until the end of the 1920s;

Private collection, Château de Courtaney, Avry, Switzerland;

Anonymous sale, Zurich, Koller, 22 September 2023, lot 3002 (as Frankish Master, circa 1515);

With Sam Fogg, London (as Circle of Hans Schäufelin);

From whom acquired by the present collector, December 2024.

A. von Oechelhäuser, Die Kunstdenkmäler der Grossherzogtums Baden: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Amtsbezirke Sinsheim, Eppingen und Wiesloch, vol. XVIII, Tübingen 1909, pp. 174-175, reproduced figs. 88-89 (as Franconian School, in the style of Wolgemut, circa 1500);

G. Dehio, Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Südwestdeutschland, vol. IV, Berlin 1911, p. 121 (as circa 1500);

H. Gräf, Unterländer Altäre 1350-1540: Eine Bestandsaufnahme, Heilbronn 1983, pp. 14, 184, 185, cat. no. C3, reproduced (as Nuremberg School, circa 1490).