Live Auction 2710Old Master Paintings
Prague School, 1590s
Lot 10

Prague School, 1590s

Saint Michael Vanquishing the Devil

Closed5 June 2013

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USD 18,750

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Prague School, 1590s
Saint Michael Vanquishing the Devil
oil on panel
18¾ x 12½ in. (47.6 x 31.8 cm.), with ¼ in. (0.7 cm.) additions on all edges

Acquired by the present owner in Paris, 2003, as Florentine School, c. 1590.

Specialist note

The present lot relates to the monumental bronze sculpture executed in 1588 by Hubert Gerhard for the façade of the Michaelskirche, Munich, after a design by Friedrich Sustris. It is also comparable to an engraving of 1597 by Lukas Kilian after a drawing by Peter Candid (see B. Volk-Knüttel, Pieter Candid (um 1538-1628): Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Druckgraphik, Berlin, 2010, nos. D23 and Z29), but is unique in several details, such as the feet and legs of the Devil.