Follower of Albrecht Dürer
[Saleroom Notice]
Samson rending the Lion,
oil on panel, 36 x 26 cm, framed
We are grateful to Rainer Stüwe for his certificate of authenticity (which is available), dated 20 October 2020, where he attributes the present panel to an Antwerp follower of Jan de Beer (Antwerp circa 1475 – before 1528). He compares the painting to Jan de Beers's Saint Christopher in the Národní Galerie, Prague, and dates it to circa 1530–40.
The present panel depicts an episode from the Book of Judges 14:6, recounting Samson tearing a lion apart with his bare hands ‘as if it were a kid’. The sinuous lines of Samson’s legs and the gradations of tone in the lions mane are in the manner of Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut treatment of the same subject (see Bartsch, Vienna 1803, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 116). One of Dürer’s earliest works, described by Erwin Panofsky as ‘fireworks in black and white,’ is transformed by the dynamic colouring of Samson’s drapery and the verdant background of the present panel. Such was the immediate and enduring popularity or Dürer’s prints in Southern Germany that it was commonplace for patrons to commission painted versions of them.
Specialist: Damian Brenninkmeyer
Damian Brenninkmeyer
+43 1 515 60 403
old.masters@dorotheum.com
10.11.2020 - 16:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 8,000.- to EUR 12,000.-
Follower of Albrecht Dürer
[Saleroom Notice]Samson rending the Lion,
oil on panel, 36 x 26 cm, framed
We are grateful to Rainer Stüwe for his certificate of authenticity (which is available), dated 20 October 2020, where he attributes the present panel to an Antwerp follower of Jan de Beer (Antwerp circa 1475 – before 1528). He compares the painting to Jan de Beers's Saint Christopher in the Národní Galerie, Prague, and dates it to circa 1530–40.
The present panel depicts an episode from the Book of Judges 14:6, recounting Samson tearing a lion apart with his bare hands ‘as if it were a kid’. The sinuous lines of Samson’s legs and the gradations of tone in the lions mane are in the manner of Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut treatment of the same subject (see Bartsch, Vienna 1803, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 116). One of Dürer’s earliest works, described by Erwin Panofsky as ‘fireworks in black and white,’ is transformed by the dynamic colouring of Samson’s drapery and the verdant background of the present panel. Such was the immediate and enduring popularity or Dürer’s prints in Southern Germany that it was commonplace for patrons to commission painted versions of them.
Specialist: Damian Brenninkmeyer
Damian Brenninkmeyer
+43 1 515 60 403
old.masters@dorotheum.com
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| Auction: | Old Master Paintings |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction with Live Bidding |
| Date: | 10.11.2020 - 16:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 04.11. - 10.11.2020 |
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Starting bid:
EUR 220.-