(Unterschwarzach / Upper Swabia 1724–1772 Graz or Laibach)
A saint before a Roman commander, oil on canvas, 43 x 26 cm, framed,

Provenance: Galerie Griebert, Munich.

Authenticated as the work of the Upper Swabian church painter, Eustachius Gabriel by Prof Bruno Bushart, Augsburg. Dr Erich Egg of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, suggested in a letter of 1978 to the owner an attribution to the Tyrolean painter, Johann Balthasar Riepp (1703–1764). On the reverse, inscribed in an old hand as the work of Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner.

The paintings 421-447 originate from a Southern German private collection, which was amassed over the last few decades with great connoisseurship and art historical interest. The collector, a doctor, specialized from early on in 18th-century Southern German and Austrian oil studies and bozzetti, alongside a number of Italian works of a similar quality. Thus a small, but choice collection was brought together, characterized by its owner’s cultivated taste and knowledge of artistic interconnections.

Provenance: Galerie Griebert, Munich. Authenticated as the work of the Upper Swabian church painter, Eustachius Gabriel by Prof Bruno Bushart, Augsburg. Dr Erich Egg of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, suggested in a letter of 1978 to th