Name: CIRCLE OF GREGOR ERHART (D. 1540 AUGSBURG), CIRCA 1500-1520
Brand: The Infant Christ
Price: 45000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

CIRCLE OF GREGOR ERHART (D. 1540 AUGSBURG), CIRCA 1500-1520
The Infant Christ
polychrome wood; holding an apple and seated on an associated polychrome wood throne with heraldic shields and surmounted by a lamb and an owl; with three paper labels to the reverse, two inscribed 'E.' and 'SAMMLUNG / FIGDOR / 25.'; the remains of a paper label to the underside inscribed ‘SAMMLUNG FIG…’
9¹⁄₂ in. (24 cm.) high; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) high, overall

Dr. Albert Figdor, Vienna,
his sale; Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 29- 30 September 1930, IV, lot 173.
Probably acquired at the above sale by Franz Koenigs (1881-1941), and by descent to the present owners.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
M. Baxandall, The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany, New Haven and London, 1980, pl. 68.
S. Guillot de Suduiraut ed., Sculptures Allemandes de la fin du Moyen Age dans les collection publiques françaises 1400-1530, exh. cat., Paris, 1991, p. 207, figs. c and d.

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Lot Essay

The present figure of Christ may originally have been seated in the lap of his mother as part of a group of the Virgin and Child Enthroned. With his somewhat square facial type and tightly curled hair he recalls other figures of Chirst carved by the sculptor Gregor Erhart, including the Christ from two separate groups of the Virgin of Mercy, at Frauenstein and, formerly, at Kaisheim (see Baxandall and Guillot de Suduiraut , locs. cit.).