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Lot 6023 - ibid150 Old Master Paintings - online only - Wednesday, 02. April 2025, 11.00 AM

Follower of FRANS FLORIS the Elder

(1515 Antwerp 1570)
Two wings of an altar: St Catherine and St Helen with ecclesiastical patronesses 1574.
Oil on panel.
Inscribed lower left: o god alft u belieft. AETATIS SUAE: 31. 1574 / inscribed lower right: maerkt my bequeamr heezr. AETATIS SUAE: 28. 1574.
93.7 × 32.5 cm each.

Provenance:
Private collection, Switzerland.

Our thanks to Dr Horst Boxler, editor in chief of the Swiss Heraldic Society, and Maximilian Nalbach for their assistance in cataloguing this work.


Saint Catherine:Oil on panel, verso with a vertical batten. The paint surface with a fine network of craquelure and vertical craquelure. Some surface soiling and small colour losses. The right hand half with an almost continuous vertical hairline crack visible, with older retouching. Colour losses along the edges.Under UV light: some retouching on the figures and the sky. The varnish fluoresces an irregular greenish colour.Saint Helen:Oil on panel. The paint surface with a fine network of craquelure and vertical craquelure. Some surface soiling, small traces of scratches, older retouching and small colour losses in places. With colour losses along the edges.Under UV light: some retouching on the figures and the sky. The varnish fluoresces an irregular greenish colour.Dimensions with frame: 104.7 × 76.9 cm (framed together).


CHF 1 000 / 1 500 | (€ 1 030 / 1 550)

Sold for CHF 2 625 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.