Shepherd couple in a rocaille
Master of the Rocaille, Tyrol, second half 18th C.
Glass painted on reverse in eglomisé technique with gold and silver accents and opaque and transparent pigments. With retouches. In a later gilded softwood frame, H 27, W 21 cm.
These reverse glass paintings are both based on sheets by the Augsburg engraver Johann Georg Hertel the Elder (1700 - 1775) after designs by Franz Xaver Habermann (1721 - 1796), reproduced in reverse.
In comparison to other Tyrolean reverse glass painters, it is interesting to note that the Master of the Rocaille only created secular depictions such as allegories, as opposed to the primarily religious motifs popular at the time. His notname is based on his particular penchant for large rocaille scroll decorations carried out in eglomisé technique using gold leaf. He is thought to have been active in the second half of the 18th century in the surroundings of Innsbruck – Hall and Tyrol.
Provenance
Art market, Linz.
Literature
Illus. in Steiner, Verborgene Schätze – Tiroler Hinterglasmalerei 1550 - 1850, Brixen 2009, illus. 42 f.
Illus. in Steiner, ... eine andere Art von Malerey. Hinterglasgemälde und ihre Vorlagen 1550 - 1850, Berlin-Munich 2012, illus. 65 ff.
Illus. in Steiner, Goldglanz und Silberpracht – Hinterglasmalerei aus vier Jahrhunderten, Berlin-Munich 2015, no. 56 f.
Exhibitions
2009 - 2010 Diözesanmuseum Hofburg Brixen.
2010 "Rocaille: zur Geschichte einer Ornamentform", Barockmuseum Salzburg.
2012 Schaezlerpalais der Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg.
2015 Schaezlerpalais der Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg.