BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
BC/AD Sculpture Ancient to Modern
WORKSHOP OF TILMAN HEYSACKER, CALLED MEISTER TILMAN (ACTIVE CIRCA 1475-1515) | SAINT AGNES WITH HER LAMB
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8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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WORKSHOP OF TILMAN HEYSACKER, CALLED MEISTER TILMAN (ACTIVE CIRCA 1475-1515)
GERMAN, COLOGNE, CIRCA 1490-1500
SAINT AGNES WITH HER LAMB
polychromed oak
65.5cm., 25¾in.
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Private collection, Germany
With her distinctive hairstyle, angular folds of drapery, and the pronounced S-curve in her stance, this charming Saint Agnes was almost certainly made in the workshop of the leading late Gothic sculptor in Cologne, Tilman Heysacker, who is traditionally referred to as Meister Tilman. A particularly striking comparison is found in a Female Saint from the master's workshop in the Liebieghaus, Frankfurt, illustrated in op. cit., p. 44.
RELATED LITERATURE
R. Karrenbrock (ed.), Die Holzskulpturen des Mittelalters, II: 1400 bis 1540, Teil 1: Köln, Westfalen, Norddeutschland, cat. Museum Schnütgen, Cologne, 2001, pp. 9–80