Hungarian, Austrian and German collection » Painting and Sculpture (12-16. century)

Presumably from the altarpiece shrine of a bishop-saint

(St. Valentine? or St. John the Almsgiver?)

Artist

Workshop from a mining town

Origin date

early 16th century

Material

wood

Technique

painted

Sizes

magasság: 111 cm
szélesség: 30 cm
mélység: 19 cm

Inventory No.

56.854.1

Presumably from the altarpiece shrine of a bishop-saint

56.854

56.854 verso

Description and further information

Standing figure of a bishop-saint with a man’s head under his feet. It was most likely one of the statues from a multi-figural sculptural composition of an altarpiece shrine.
The surface is strongly abraded. A significant portion of the present-day polychromy was retouched with hatching.

Provenance:
Ipolyi Collection 183 (?). It cannot be identified with any certainty: ‘183. Statue made of wood: Bishop St. Nicholas. 15th c.’ (Lakatos-Balla 295)

Restoration:
1960; Zsuzsa Bajza, 2000

Bibliography
Genthon-1948, 152. – Radocsay-1967, 173.

Provenance

Ipolyi gyűjtemény. 183 (?) Nem azonosítható egyértelműen: “183. Szobor fából: Szent Miklós püspök. XV. sz.” (Lakatos-Balla 295)

Restauration

1960-as években történt beavatkozás;
2000 Bajza Zsuzsa

Bibliography

Radocsay D.: A középkori Magyarország faszobrai, Budapest, 1967, 173.
Magyarország műemléki topográfiája I. Esztergom 1. Esztergom műemlékei (összeállította: Genthon István; Budapest 1948), 152.