Lot n° 140
Estimation :
1000 - 1500
EUR
17th century German school after Hans Johann Rottenhammer (1 - Lot 140
17th century German school after Hans Johann Rottenhammer (1564 Munich - Augsburg 1625)
Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist
Oil on copper
16.5 x 13 cm.
Presented in an exuberant blackened wood and gilded brass frame, with inlays of baroque silvered brass ornaments and gilded bronze mascarons.
A delicate version painted after the engraving made in Augsburg, circa 1610, by Dominicus Custos (1560-1612), based on a drawing by Rottenhammer (1564 Munich - Augsburg 1625). The engraving was accompanied by the line:
"Qui tolles nos tui scelere vestigia, salve
Magne puer, tener ille Deique ab ouilibus agne."
Expert: Pierre-Antoine MARTENET.
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