Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I

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Property from a Distinguished New York Collection

Swabian School, circa 1480–1490

Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins Returning to Cologne (recto); Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Two Ecclesiastics (verso)

Auction Closed

February 1, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Swabian School, circa 1480–1490

Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins Returning to Cologne (recto);

Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Two Ecclesiastics (verso)


oil on panel, with gold ground details on verso

panel: 25 ⅛ by 31 ⅞ in.; 64 by 81 cm. 

framed: 32 ½ by 38 ½ in.; 82.6 by 97.8 cm.

Please refer to the online catalogue for updated provenance, literature and catalogue entry for this lot.

Anonymous sale, Brussels, J. Fievez, 23 May 1900, lot 14 (as Cologne School, 15th Century);

Baroness Hélène van Zuylen de Nyevelt (née de Rothschild), Paris;

From whom seized by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (inventory R250) and transferred to the collection of Hermann Göring, 8 February 1941 (inv. no. 208 and RM inventory no. 729) (as West German, circa 1480);

Recovered by Monuments Officers and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 25 July 1945 (MCCP no. 5127) (as Master of the Life of the Virgin);

Restituted to the Rothschild Family, 5 November 1947;

Anonymous sale ("Provenant de la Collection de la Baronne X... de X..."), Paris, Musée Galleria, 11 June 1971, lot 58 (as Cologne School, circa 1500)

Château de Gourdon;

Their collection sale ("Les Collections du Château de Gourdon"), Paris, Christie's, 29-31 March 2011, lot 507 (as Cologne School, circa 1500, and as Ursula's arrival in Basel);

Where acquired by the present collector.

G. Haase, Die Kunstsammlung des Reichsmarschalls Hermann Göring: Eine Dokumentation, Berlin 2000, p. 272 (as French School, 15th Century);

N.H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, pp. 112, 329, cat. no. A738, reproduced (as Master of the Ursula Legend);

K.D. Alford, Hermann Göring and the Nazi Art Collection, Jefferson NC 2012, p. 215 (as Lower Rhenish School, after 1480);

J.-M. Drefus, Le Catalogue Goering, Paris 2015, p. 348, reproduced (as Master of the Ursula Legend);

To be included in the forthcoming publication, R. Valland, The Art Front: The Defense of the French Collections 1939–1945, O. Jouan (trans.) and R.M. Edsel (ed.), Dallas 2024 (expected, Fall 2024).