Attributed to Georg Schweigger

Kunsthandel Julius Böhler, Starnberg, 2011

Georg Schweigger was the most prominent sculptor of the Dürer Revival movement in Germany. Though active in the Baroque period, he created works in the style of his Renaissance predecessors from the time of Albrecht Dürer.

A rectangular relief of similar dimensions and a comparable landscape background with Cephalus and Procris signed and dated by Schweigger is in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg (inv. no. 1928.114). Solnhofen stone was mined in Franconia and became a favoured material of sculptors in Augsburg and Nuremberg during the 16th and 17th centuries because of its attractive creamy colour and relative softness to carve. Sculptors who frequently used the material for small-scale sculpture and reliefs include Hans Daucher, Loy Hering, and Peter Flötner.

RELATED LITERATURE

J. Rasmussen, Deutsche Plastik der Renaissance und des Barock, cat. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 1975, pp. 49 and 103-104, no. 31