Lot 8: Hans Jakob Plepp , Biel 1557/60 - 1597/98 Basel the Gebhart and Rechburger arms with four allegorical figures and horatius cocles above Pen and black ink and gray and colored washes, within black ink framing lines; horizontal and vertical creases;

Pen and black ink and gray and colored washes, within black ink framing lines; horizontal and vertical creases; bears 19th Century pencil inscription, lower center: Gebhardt Rechburger

measurements note 373 by 288 mm

Zürich, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Alte Glasmalerei der Schweiz, 1945/6, catalogue by W. Hugelshofer, no. 312

J. Schneider, 'Der Basler Bürgermeister Lukas Gebhardt und seine Familie im Spiegel der Glasmalerei' in Zeitschrift für schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, 14, 1953, p. 51, plate 18;
J. Schneider, 'Vorlagen für das schweizerische Kunstgewerbe' in Zeitschrift für schweizerische Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte, 16, 1956, p. 161, plate. 68, fig.10;
P.L. Ganz, Basler Glasmaler der Spätrenaissance und der Barockzeit, Basel 1966, p. 68, fig. 68

Ludwig Rosenthal, Münich, 1919

This design was made for the Basel couple Lux Gebhardt the Younger and Elizabeth Rechburger, who married in 1579. Stylistically, the drawing can be associated with Plepp's early Basel period, circa 1582. The elaborate border, with its female allegorical figures derives from one that appears in a series of woodcut portraits by Tobias Stimmer, which are dated between 1574 and 1577 (fig. 1).υ1 Plepp has taken Stimmer's decorative prototype and elaborated it with an illustration of the story of Horatius Cocles. Plepp left his native Biel for Schaffhausen in around 1574, moving on to Basel some four years later. There he lived and worked until 1595, when he moved once more, to Bern, where he spent his final years. Throughout his career, Plepp was heavily influenced by the work of Stimmer. 1. See Tobias Stimmer 1539-1584, exhibition catalogue, Basel, Kunstmuseum 1984, cat. nos. 138-140