MASTER OF TEPLICE | SAINT ANDREW AND A MALE SAINT

The artist of these panels of saints takes his name from a painting formerly in the Church of Santa Maria in the town of Duci, near Teplice, in the Czech Republic, now displayed in the Diocesan Museum of Litomerice.¹  Miklós Boskovits first coined this name when adding to the artist’s oeuvre three other panels, Saints Anthony, Nicholas and Catherine, offered at London, Christie’s in 2003.²  While very similar in form to the present saints, the figures in the London panels are set further forward in the pictorial frame, and the shaped edge of the now absent framing element would have overlapped the halos which are outlined in red. While the London panels would have been pinnacles, the horizontal grain of the present pair suggests they were once predella panels. Mauro Minardi, to whom we are grateful for confirming the attribution of the present paintings and for his assistance in the cataloguing of this lot, has proposed that these panels would have originally formed part of an altarpiece with another predella panel of an apostle sold in these rooms in 2015³ as well as with a Christ, another Apostle and a Saint Peter, formerly Moratilla collection, Paris.⁴ 

1. See O. Pujmanova, Arte rinascimentale italiana nelle collezioni ceche, Prague 1996, pp. 42-43.

2. Anonymous sale, London, Christie’s, 10 December 2003, lot 105.

3. Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 29 January 2015, lot 208.

4. The location of the Moratilla panels is now unknown, but they are listed in the Fondazione Zeri Fototeca archive as the Master of the Pesaro Crucifixion, entry nos. 5233-5235.