Lot 81: CHRISTOPH DANIEL SCHENK 1633-1691, SOUTH GERMAN, DATED 1679

CHRISTOPH DANIEL SCHENK 1633-1691, SOUTH GERMAN, DATED 1679

A BOXWOOD RELIEF OF THE PENITENT MAGDALENE

measurements note
relief: 12.9 by 8.3 frame: 26 by 20cm.

finely carved in relief, the half length figure turned towards the crucifix, flail in hand, inscribed in ink on the back Anna Elisabetha Mulsom..., within boxwood inner moulding and contained in later glazed giltwood frame

signed with the initials C.D.S. and dated 1679 beneath the open book

NOTE

This finely carved relief of the Penitent Magdalen dated 1679 can be stylistically compared with the relief Arme Seele im Feugefeur, dated 1677, in the Donaueschingen collection as well as a later, 1682, version of the penitent Magdalen in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, inv. no. 1952.115.

RELATED LITERATURE:
Christoph Daniel Schenk 1633-1691, nos.6,26 and 44