HANS KEMMER

HANS KEMMER
(circa 1495 Lübeck 1561)Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine.Oil on panel.51 × 40 cm.

Lot 6092 - ibid160 Old Master Paintings - online only

Provenance:
- With Galerie Arnold (verso with label).
- Swiss private collection, for four generations.

We thank Dr Michael Hofbauer for his scholarly assistance in cataloguing this painting on the basis of a photograph.

Oil on panel, cradled. Verso at the left edge with a continuous vertical wooden reinforcement. Paint surface with a fine network of craquelure. Trimmed at the upper and lower edges, and with raised paint surface along both the right and left sides. Centre left with a continuous vertical retouched hairline crack, and a further vertical retouched hairline crack lower right. Minimal paint losses visible on the figures. Colour abrasion along the margins.
Under UV light several areas of retouching visible along the two aforementioned hairline cracks. Further isolated areas of retouching visible on the figures and in the background. Varnish fluoresces unevenly greenish.
Frame: 63.3 × 51.1 cm.

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