Sale: 422 / Old Masters and Art of the 19th Century, May 22. 2015 in Munich Lot 190

 

190
Johann von Spillenberger
Susanna und die beiden Alten, Ca. 1667/1670.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,800

(incl. surcharge)
Susanna und die beiden Alten. Ca. 1667/1670.
Oil on canvas, laminated on firm board.
Baljöhr M9a. Signed lower left. 69 x 58.5 cm (27.1 x 23 in).
Verso of old adhesive label with inscription and an old owner's stamp. [CB].

PROVENANCE: Architect Heinrich Sexauer, Karlsruhe (verso with stamp on label).
Sotheby's, London, auction on 10 July, 2003, lot 181.
Private ownership Southern Germany.

EXHIBITION: Johann von Spillenberger. Hofmaler Kaiser Lepolds I., Salzburger Barockmuseum, 18 July - 31 August, 2003.

LITERATURE: Ruth Baljöhr, Johann von Spillenberger 1628-1679, Weissenhorn 2003, cat. no. D8 (documented works), and in the addendum released on occasion of the exhibition in Salzburg, under M9a in the catalog of assured paintings.

The painting "Susanna und die beiden Alten" is the third variation in a series of works with the same theme, two other similar works by Spillenberger have been localized so far. Both paintings are in possession of a museum, they differ from ours in terms of overall composition as well as the arrangement of the people. One of these variants, a large landscape format with dimensions of 93 x 133 cm, is in Pommersfelden today (Baljöhr M9), it is dated 1670 and conceived as complement to the "Finding of Moses" (Baljöhr M1). The second version in portray format (today in Zarskoje Selo near St. Petersburg, Baljöhr M10, 108.5 x 76 cm) presumably has a "Lucretia" illustration as pendant. Thus it can be assumed that there must have been a counterpart for our "Susanna" likewise. For its style its origin can be dated between1667 and 1670, as it has similar figures and draperies as the "Bathseba" from 1667 (Musée municipale, Cognac, Baljöhr M6), the work "Mariä Himmelfahrt" in the church St. Peter and St. Johannes in Berchtesgaden (Baljöhr M21) and the above mentioned "Susanna" in Pommersfelden originate from the years between 1667 and 1669.



190
Johann von Spillenberger
Susanna und die beiden Alten, Ca. 1667/1670.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 12,000 / $ 12,960
Sold:
€ 10,000 / $ 10,800

(incl. surcharge)