Lot 14
  • 14

The Master of the Twelve Apostles Active in Ferrara 1530 - 1575

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • The Master of the Twelve Apostles
  • Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well
  • oil on panel, with arched top

  • 20 by 14 1/2 in.
  • 51 by 37 cm.

Provenance

Paul S. Reinisch by 1912
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, April 24, 1995, lot 116

Exhibited

Madison, Wisconsin, State Historical Library Building, Collection of Paintings Owned by Paul S. Reinisch; Exhibition in the State Historical Library Building, September 26-October 24, 1912, p. 6, no. 47

Condition

The paint and paint surface are stable. The paint surface is thin in areas and with numerous small repairs to paint loss, particularly visible in the sky; there are some traces left of gold paint on Christ's halo and around the female figure but most of it is rubbed. Fine, vertical craquelure through panel. Under UV light: extensive inpainting in the sky and on the vertical craquelure at center; fine inpainting on the two figures.
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Catalogue Note

C. Savonuzzi was the first to indentify the work of the Master of the Twelve Apostles whom he named after a series of twelve panels in the collection of the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Ferrara (see "Il maestro dei Dodici Apostoli," La critica d'arte, vol. VIII, 6, fasc. XXXII, March 1950, pp. 477-80). He was active in Ferrara and Rovigo in the second quarter of the 16th Century, and his style was influenced by Garofalo, the Dossi and Mazzolino. The present work seems to relate stylistically to panels of the Ressurection and the Pentacost in the Pinacoteca, Ferrara and the Ascension in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.