Lot 3016* - A218 Tableaux de Maîtres Anciens - vendredi, 18. septembre 2026, 14h00
PETER GERTNER
(circa 1495/1500 Nuremberg after 1541)
The head of Saint John the Baptist.
Oil on panel.
44.3 × 18.9 cm.
Provenance:
- Private collection, Great Britain.
- Auction Bonhams, London, 15 April 2021, lot 74.
- Non-European collection.
Literature:
- Kurt Löcher: Peter Gertner ein Nürnberger Meister als Hofmaler des Pfalzgrafen Ottheinrich in Neuburg an der Donau, in: 'Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt', Jahrbuch 141/1993, pp. 114–15, ill. 70.
This Head of Saint John the Baptist once formed the lower section of a depiction with Salome, whose upper part was sold in these rooms in 2006 (Koller Auctions A138, lot 3009). The complete composition was still in a private collection in Vienna in 1908. Exactly when the two wooden panels were separated is uncertain, but this is not uncommon, as demonstrated by the recently reunited depiction of the same subject by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) in the Herzogliches Museum Gotha.
Peter Gertner was active as a painter in Nuremberg from 1521 and was granted Nuremberg citizenship. He specialised in portrait painting. Little is known about his beginnings. He probably trained with Dürer's pupil Wolf Traut (1486–1520). From 1523–27 he was in the service of Margrave Casimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481–1527) and the court at Ansbach. From 1530 he worked for Count Palatine Ottheinrich in Neuburg an der Donau, where he was primarily occupied with portraits of the Palatine Wittelsbach family and created a gallery of ancestors.
The depiction of the Head of Saint John the Baptist clearly suggests the influence of Lucas Cranach the Elder, whose style Gertner probably encountered in Nuremberg through the painter Hans Brosamer (1495–1554), who stayed there between 1519–1529.
We thank Dr Michael Hofbauer for his scholarly assistance in cataloguing this painting.
Peter Gertner was active as a painter in Nuremberg from 1521 and was granted Nuremberg citizenship. He specialised in portrait painting. Little is known about his beginnings. He probably trained with Dürer's pupil Wolf Traut (1486–1520). From 1523–27 he was in the service of Margrave Casimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481–1527) and the court at Ansbach. From 1530 he worked for Count Palatine Ottheinrich in Neuburg an der Donau, where he was primarily occupied with portraits of the Palatine Wittelsbach family and created a gallery of ancestors.
The depiction of the Head of Saint John the Baptist clearly suggests the influence of Lucas Cranach the Elder, whose style Gertner probably encountered in Nuremberg through the painter Hans Brosamer (1495–1554), who stayed there between 1519–1529.
We thank Dr Michael Hofbauer for his scholarly assistance in cataloguing this painting.
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