Hans Rottenhammer - The Assumption of the Virgin

Hans Rottenhammer

The Assumption of the Virgin

Oil on copper. 32.6 x 24.6 cm.

The composition of the present work corresponds to a painting by Hans Rottenhammer in the Mittelrheinmuseum in Koblenz, which H. Schlichtenmaier described as a combination of the theme of the Queen of Heaven, Maria Immaculata and the Virgin of the Apocalypse.
As with other compositions by Rottenhammer, it can be proven by copies that this pictorial idea was also known in Antwerp. Fusenig mentions, for example, a version that can be ascribed to Hendrik van Balen and also a version "en grisaille" that was recorded in the estate of van Balen's wife in 1638. There it was described as follows: "A sketch of an Ascension by Rottenhammer in black and white" (Fusenig, op. cit., note 80).

Certificate

Thomas Fusenig, 2017.

Provenance

Sotheby´s London, 12.07.2001, lot 125. - Im Kinski, Vienna 18.10.2017. - German private collection.

Literature

Cited literature: H. Schlichtenmaier: Studien zum Werk von Hans Rottenhammer des Älteren (1564-1625). Maler und Zeichner mit Werkkatalog, Diss. Tübingen 1988. - T. Fusenig: Hans Rottenhammer und die Antwerpener Malerei des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts, in: Hans Rottenhammer. Ergebnisse des in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Kunstgeschichte der tschechischen Akademie der Wissenschaften durchgeführten Symposiums am Weserrenaissance-Museum Schloss Brake 2007, ed. H. Borggrefe, V. Lüpkes, L. Konecny, M. Bischof, 2007, p. 157 - 177.