Johann Rieger
Christ Blessing a Kneeling Female Saint outside a city gate, with many onlookers
Lot Closed
July 6, 03:18 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Attributed to Johann Rieger
Dinkelscherben? 1655 – 1730 Augsburg
Christ Blessing a Kneeling Female Saint outside a city gate, with many onlookers
onlookers
Pen and brown ink and brown, blue and lilac wash within partial pen and brown ink framing lines
153 by 395 mm
Andrew and Juli Wieg, Amsterdam,
sale of their collection, London, Sotheby’s, 24 March 2021, lot 141 (as South German School, 17th Century)
The distinctive style and combination of media seen in this expansive compositional study seem close to the few known drawings of the Augsburg artist, Johann Rieger, for example the impressive, signed altarpiece design, now in the University of Minnesota Art Museum, Minneapolis.1
1. University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Hylton A. Thomas Collection, inv. 70.3.127; see Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Central European Drawings 1680-1800, A selection from American collections, exh. cat., Princeton/Santa Barbara 1989-90, no. 5
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