The pleasant spring and the lovely summer Tyrol, second half 18th C. - image-1
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Lot 74 Dα

The pleasant spring and the lovely summer Tyrol, second half 18th C.

Auction 1237 - overview Cologne
16.11.2023, 10:00 - Stained Glass from four Centuries
Estimate: 1.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 1.260 € (incl. premium)
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The pleasant spring and the lovely summer
Tyrol, second half 18th C.

Glass panel painted on reverse in opaque and transparent pigments, with silver-bronze accents and inscription against black ground. With retouches. Painted softwood frame, H 24.5, W 30.3 cm.

Both reverse glass paintings reproduce motifs from a four part series by the Augsburg engraver and publisher Martin Engelbrecht (1684 - 1756), depicted in reverse. His piece "Der unangenehme Winter“ (The Unpleasant Winter) from the same series is housed in the Landesmuseum Zurich.

Provenance

Auctioned by Falk und Falk, Zurich, November 2005.

Literature

Illus. in Steiner, Verborgene Schätze – Tiroler Hinterglasmalerei 1550 - 1850, Brixen 2009, illus. 81 f.
Illus. in Steiner, Landschaft in der Hinterglasmalerei des 18. Jahrhunderts, Berlin-Munich 2013, illus. 60 f.

Exhibitions

2009 - 2010 Diözesanmuseum Hofburg Brixen.
2013 Oberammergau Museum.