Lot 19: PETER GERTNER | Ottheinrich von der Pfalz, Elector Palatine of the Rhine and Count Palatine of Neuburg

Pen and black ink and watercolour and gouache, over black lead, on vellum laid on board

508 by 399 mm

Pen and black ink and watercolour and gouache, over black lead, on vellum laid on board

Laid down on board. There is a certain amount of light staining and discolouration, particularly to the edges. Otherwise in generally good condition with the medium fresh and vibrant.
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Pantheon II, 1928, p. 365, reproduced p. 364;
L. Fudickar, 'Die Bildniskunst der Nürnberger Barthel Beham und Peter Gertner', PhD diss., Munich 1942, no. 107;
K. Löcher, ‘Peter Gertner – ein Nürnberger Meister als Hofmaler des Pfalzgrafen Ottheinrich in Neuburg an der Donau’, Neuburger Kollektaneenblatt, 141, 1993, pp. 46, 47, 53, fig. 27 

Fürst Leopold I von Anhalt-Dessau (1676-1747), Schloss zu Dessau;
possibly sale, Berlin, Aufseezer, Henrici, 1-2 November 1926;
with Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1926, who dispersed the volume;
with Jacques Seligmann and son, Paris, 1928;
European Private Collection