Offered by Seghers & Pang Fine Arts
Austro-Bavarian sculptor - follower of Erasmus Grasser - ca 1500. A large (110cm) carved and polychromed lime wood ‘Holy Knight’. The statue, of great elegance and considerable quality, depicting a young saintly knight with a melancholic expression (possibly St. George) wearing a German-style breastplate under a broad cloak, can be attributed to an Austro-Bavarian carver of the late 15th - early 16th century. The Saint Knight is sculpted with sharp facial features and lavish hairdo in a snappy arching posture with one foot sticking out from the base in a pointed sabaton shoe, the thin drapery of His cloak broken by angular folds that curl up into a meandering fall. Some statues (Male Saint, LACMA museum) attributed to Erasmus Grasser (Schmidmühlen c. 1450 - Munich 1518), especially the face, bloodred broad-rimmed hat and lush hairdo of Saint Achatius from the Achatiusaltar in the Saint Leonhardskirche in Reichersdorf bear some resemblances to our sculpture. Weathered, losses (both hands). Can’t help it but his face also reminds us of the famous Titian painting ‘Portrait of a Young Man’ dating from 1515, now in the Städel Museum Frankfurt: same face, same look in the eyes, same hat.
Provenance:
Sotheby's London, 9 July 1992, ‘European Sculpture and Works of Art’ lot 34.
Achatiusaltar von Erasmus Grasser ca 1506 in St. Leonhard, Reichersdorf
https://www.miesbacher-verlagshaus.de/besondere-kuenstler-im-oberland/der-achatiusaltar-und-erasmus-grasser.html
Detail: click to photo 6 in Salzburger Nachrichten “Erasmus Grasser 500 Jahre 'Achatius Altar' 1503-1506”
https://www.sn.at/kultur/bildende-kunst/ein-stueck-holz-kann-tanzen-26860357
LACMA, Los Angeles
https://collections.lacma.org/node/229283
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