Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I
Master Paintings & Sculpture Part I
Property from a Distinguished New York Collection
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.
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).
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