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Lot 384 Dα

Reverse glass painting with a landscape

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
17.05.2023, 14:00 - Furniture Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €

Reverse glass painting with a landscape

Double pane of clear glass, opaque and transparent pigments, wooden panel, older ebonised and giltwood surround. H 38.4, W 50.8 cm.
Attributed to Southern Germany, mid-18th C., landscape presumably after a motif by Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (1620 - 1683).

Literature

Cf. Steiner, Hinterglas und Kupferstich. Hinterglasgemälde und ihre Vorlagen 1550 - 1850, Munich 2004, p. 139.