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Adoration of the Magi

$1,011,909.49

£752,123.99

€850,000

CA$1,397,168.73

A$1,549,356.88

CHF 814,072.07

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NOK 10,185,152.31

SEK 9,560,505.64

DKK 6,472,324.86

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Heinrich Vogtherr, alias Heinricus Satrapitanus, alias "The Master H.S with the Cross" (attributed to), Adoration of the Magi, 1518, oil on wood panel painted on both sides, 110 x 82 cm This painting depicts an Adoration of the Magi. It bears various inscriptions in the lower left corner, including the date 1518. We will return to the other inscriptions later. The context is 16th-century Europe, both in terms of the costumes and the architectural elements that form the backdrop for this frequently depicted New Testament episode. On the left, two women stand behind the crowned Virgin Mary, who is presenting the Infant Jesus to the three Magi depicted on the right. In the background, a sort of plain unfolds with figures, followed by a religious building that strangely combines different styles or elements, including two bulbous domes. A strange portico on the right appears covered in weeds, as if to make it look like a ruined building. The monofocal perspective effect is very clumsy, and it appears as if the entire left side of the building has been truncated. In the foreground, a landscape with some steep mountains unfolds. On one of them stands a probable temple. Finally, above the pink-toned sky on the horizon, a divine register unfolds, in which God the Father and the Son make a gesture of blessing towards the scene of the Adoration of the Magi. To the left of the celestial part framed by clouds, small cherubs carry a cartouche containing an inscription in Hebrew. Biography of the presumed author of the painting The presumed author of this painting is Heinrich Volgtherr the Elder (1490-1556). Born into a family of doctors in 1490 in the small town of Dillingen near Augsburg, he appears in the registers of Wimpfen on the Neckar near Heilbronn at the end of 1522. There, he created frescoes for the parish church, including a Last Judgment. During the same period, he composed religious hymns and published texts in support of the Reformation under several names, including the pseudonym Satrapianus. In early 1526, he arrived in Strasbourg, which would become the city where he carried out most of his work as an engraver and publisher. He illustrated several Bibles and, in association with his son Heinrich the Younger, published in 1538 a collection of ornamental motifs for crafts (the Kunstbüchlein), which was reprinted several times until the early 17th century. Between 1544 and 1546, he worked in Switzerland, then returned to Strasbourg via Augsburg, where his son was working. In 1550, he was appointed oculist to the Emperor, and he died in Vienna in 1556. Little is known about his early career. It must have begun before 1522, when he painted frescoes. However, a series of engravings, mostly crude adaptations of works by Dürer or Cranach, signed with the monogram HS with a cross, were apparently produced between 1510 and 1517 by an engraver residing in Leipzig, then in Augsburg, until 1526. After 1526, the number of engravings with this monogram decreases sharply. Between 1523 and 1526, Vogtherr used several pseudonyms in his religious texts, all using the initials H and S: Heirich Spelt, Heinrich Scharpf, etc., and all are preceded by a frontispiece executed by the Master HS with the cross. According to Frank Muller, Vogtherr often worked quickly; the quality of his output was uneven, with many different styles; He used three different signatures (HS with the cross - "S" for Satrapitanus, a Greco-Latin translation of his German name, not mentioned here by Muller, HV, and HVE); and many engravings remained anonymous (Muller's attribution of anonymous or uncertain works is masterful). While there is now a consensus among art historians (German in this case) that Heinricus Strapitanus and Heinrich Vogtherr are the same artist, the question of the attribution of the monogram of the "Master H.S. with the Cross" remains controversial. In his five-part introductory essay, the author discusses Vogtherr's career and its significance: his youth (1490-1518); the early years of the Reformation in Augsburg and Wimpfen (1518-1525). This painting was subject to a scientific examination in a French laboratory in December 2024, which attests to the authenticity of the work: “The nature of the different pigments and fillers identified in the pictorial layers are compatible with the presumed attribution of this painting. (…) These coloring materials were known and used at the beginning of the 16th century. We have not identified any modern pigments or fillers.” We make this scientific report available to the future buyer.

Attributed to:
Vogtherr, Heinrich (1490 - 1556, German)
Dimensions:
Height: 43.31 in (110 cm)Width: 32.29 in (82 cm)
More Editions & Sizes:
110 x 82 cmPrice: $1,011,909
Medium:
Oil
Period:
16th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
PARIS, FR
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2822216880282

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Adoration of the Shepherds after Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640), engraved by Pierre-Franois Basan (French, 1723-1797), engraving, c. 1750, in black on ivory laid paper, 282 x 200 mm., with small margins. In very good condition. A fine proof impression, before letters. A draft printing of letters is visible, lower left, below image: “P P Rubens inv.”; lower right: “F. Basan excudit”. Basan’s engraving after Rubens may be modeled after another engraving of the Adoration after Rubens by Theodor Galle (1571-1633), which appeared as an illustration to the 1618 reprint of 1616 edition of “Missale Romanum...

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