Lot 20: Property from the Arthur Feldman Collection CONRAD LEIGEBEIN ACTIVE SALZBURG 1580 - 1600 THE

Property from the Arthur Feldman Collection CONRAD LEIGEBEIN ACTIVE SALZBURG 1580 - 1600 THE RAISING OF THE CROSS

signed with initials: CL VS and dated: 1582

bears further monogram: CS
pen and brown ink and several tones of brown-grey wash

PROVENANCE

City of Leipzig, mark of public sales (L.2731);
H.W. Campe (L.1391);
Brno/Feldmann inventory number 3247
CATALOGUE NOTE

Although notes on the old mount suggest that Heinrich Geissler, who wrote his dissertation on Christoph Schwarz, apparently endorsed the attribution to that artist which is inscribed in several hands on the backing of the drawing, the style is not at all consistent with that of published drawings by Schwarz. The monogram CL VS does, however, correspond very closely with one listed by Nagler as that of the Salzburg artist Conrad Leigebein (the initials corresponding to the four words "Conrad Leigebein von Salzburg"; see Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, vol. 2, no. 387). Although little is known of Leigebein's drawing style, this attribution seems very much more plausible.

180 by 279mm