Lot 32
  • 32

IN THE STYLE OF CHRISTOPH WEIDITZ (CIRCA 1500-1559), SOUTH GERMAN, 19TH CENTURY, | Lucrecia

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Lucrecia
  • elephant ivory; on a later ebonised wood base
  • 19.2 cm; 7 1/2 in.

Provenance

Private collection, Germany.

Literature

RELATED LITERATURE
M. Trusted, Baroque & later ivories, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2016, pp. 2-3, no. 1.

Condition

Surface dirt, notably in the crevices, and vertical stable hairline splitting visible in some places, consistent with the material (notably to her proper left side). The fingers on her proper left hand appear to have been reattached. There is a minor chip to her proper left ear. There are a few minor chips along the edges of the later stand.
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Catalogue Note

Lucrecia's pain-contorted face is comparable to that of Weiditz' Cleopatra in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (inv. no. PLO 2806). Weiditz was a painter, sculptor and itinerant medallist from Strasbourg who was active at the court of Charles V, in Spain, the Rhineland and in Flanders.