The Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar
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The Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar
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The Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar
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The Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar
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The Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar
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The Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar
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The Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar
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Lot 86 Dα

The Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar Thomas Aquinus Rott (1766 - 1841), Winklarn.

Auction 1237 - overview Cologne
16.11.2023, 10:00 - Stained Glass from four Centuries
Estimate: 1.200 € - 3.000 €
Result: 3.780 € (incl. premium)

The Magi: Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar
Thomas Aquinus Rott (1766 - 1841), Winklarn.

Glass panel painted on reverse in eglomisé technique with gold and silver leaf and opaque and transparent pigments. Two cracks to the lower left corner of the Caspar, retouches, especially to the Balthasar. In a later frame, H 36.3, W 26 cm.

Five members from two generations of the Rott family from Winklarn are known to have practised reverse glass painting. Thomas Aquinus Rott (1766 - 1841) is considered the most renowned reverse glass painter in the region and is the only one named in the parish registers as "pictor vitrearis".

Provenance

Auctioned by Art & Auktionen, Munich 2012.

Literature

Illus. in Steiner, Steiner, Goldglanz und Silberpracht – Hinterglasmalerei aus vier Jahrhunderten, Berlin-Munich 2015, no. 114.

Exhibitions

2015 Schaezlerpalais der Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg.