WESTPHALIAN SCHOOL, CIRCA 1500 | The Flagellation

Dr Peter Hierzenberger, Vienna;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 4 April 1984, lot 8, for £10,000;

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Christie's, 11 December 1987, lot 24, where bought by the late husband of the present owner.

The figure of Pontius Pilate here derives from an engraving of 1480 by Martin Schongauer of Christ before Caiaphas.¹ Dr Peter Hierzenberger owned an extensive collection of early German paintings and sculptures, many of which were sold in these Rooms in 1984 and 1987.

¹ See J. Campbell Hutchinson, The Illustrated Bartsch. Martin Schongauer, Ludwig Schongauer, and Copyists. Early German artists. Commentary. 8. Part 1, Norwalk 1996, p. 83, cat. no. 11.