Object Description
396 SAINT LUKE
The evangelist sits in a rocky landscape on the bull and holds in his right hand an inkwell and a tablet on which he is writing. At left a wall and a bush; at right a tree.
Bronze, aftercast, dia. 77 mm. Hole at top. A smooth frame of the original was incompletely erased and is visible in the field.
This plaquette is part of a series which exists with both smooth and pearled edges. Braun (nos. 146-49) thinks it a South German (possibly Nuremberg) work of the end of the sixteenth century, while Bange (nos. 980-82, pl. 82) and after him Bernhart (Molthein, nos. 118-21) consider the series Italian. The present author (Weber, "Fragen zum Oeuvre des Meister H. G.," p. 142 ff.) surmises that the series was reproduced in a variety of different workshops. But she believes that its origin is in a South German workshop from the following of the Master H. G. or from a South Netherlandish shop from the Circle of the Master to whom she also attributes a Judgment of Solomon in the British Museum, London, among others.
Other specimens: (lead) London, British Museum; (bronze) Berlin, Staatliche Museen; Kassel, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen; Oxford, Ashmolean Museum (complete series).
Bibl.: Braun, no. 149, pl. 42; Bange, no. 982, pl. 82; I. Weber, "Fragen zum Oeuvre des Meister H. G.," Muenchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 3rd Ser., 22 (1971), pp. 133-45; Weber, no. 708, 3. Auction catalog: Molthein, no. 121.
