OLD MASTER PICTURES
Catalog Information: 115 lots | 114 with images
Lot 1: SAINT PAUL PREACHING, in an initial P on the verso of a half-leaf from a Bible, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Romagna, c.1270] 460 x 163mm. St Paul in three-quarter length, gesturing to indicate speech, in an attenuated letter P with knotted and cusped staves terminating in acanthus leaves on a blue ground; whole leaf of two columns of 41 lines written in b [...more]
Lot 2: THE CRUCIFIXION, in an initial T on the verso of a leaf from a Gradual in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Regensburg, 1290s] 503 x 341mm (leaf); 130 x 103mm (initial). Christ nailed to the Living Tree of the Cross, its branches and curling stems bursting into leaf, between the Virgin and St John the Evangelist standing on the frame, against a burnished [...more]
Lot 3: THE RESURRECTION AND THE THREE MARIES AT THE TOMB, in an initial R on the verso of a leaf from a Gradual, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Regensburg, 1290s] 503 x 341mm (leaf); 160 x 122mm (initial). The risen Christ, pointing to DATA EST MICHI, incised into the burnished gold ground, steps from a tomb with traceried openings draped with his grave clothes; below, an angel seated on th [...more]
Lot 4: CHRIST WITH THE SAMARITAN WOMAN AT THE WELL, in an initial F on the verso of a leaf from a Missal, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[?Umbria, c.1280] 360 x 240mm. Christ, seated on the left beside the well, addresses the woman of Samaria, with a ewer balanced on her head, watched by two disciples on the right beneath the gate of Sychar, the turrets and dome of the gate into the u [...more]
Lot 5: THE ENTOMBMENT OF CHRIST, in an initial N on the verso of a leaf from a Missal, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[?Umbria, c.1280] 360 x 244mm. Joseph of Arimathea lays the wrapped body of Christ in his tomb, behind this group an arcade with hanging lamps against a ground of burnished gold, the initial staves with arching acanthus terminals extending into the m [...more]
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