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Sleeping tomb guard with crossbow

Lost Art-ID
626733
Artist / Creator
Strigel, Bernhard
Birth
1460 / 1461, Memmingen
Death
(vor) 1528.05.04, Memmingen
Place of activity
Wien
Title
Sleeping tomb guard with crossbow
Dating
1520/21 (around)
Object type
Painting
Group of reported objects
Painting
Material / Technique
Panel (Oak)
Height
48.20 cm
Width
45.80 cm
Inventory number
10068
Description
The guard lies asleep on an embankment in the forest with his knees drawn up; he is wearing a white headscarf, yellow doublet, red trousers and black shoes. Below his right elbow lies the quiver with arrows, next to it on the right the crossbow inlaid with ivory. Forest landscape. (according to inv.)
Holding
Acquisitions 1933-1945
Provenance

c. 1520/21 - n.d., probably Parish Church of Our Lady, Memmingen

n.d. - n.d., whereabouts unknown

n.d. - n.d., Dr Wilhelm Graf Erdödy, Vienna

n.d. - 23.10.1935, Kunsthandel AG, Lucerne

since 23.10.1935, Bavarian State Painting Collections, Munich, acquired by Kunsthandel AG, Lucerne, together with inv. nos. 10066 and 10067 in exchange for inv. nos. 549 and 131 (‘Ministerielle Entschließung’ no. VII 42236)

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