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Nikolaus Kentner | Saints George, John the Baptist, and Cyriacus | Eastern Tyrol, Lienz | c. 1440-50 | oil on softwood panel

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Nicolaus Kentner the Elder
SAINTS GEORGE, JOHN THE BAPTIST AND CYRIACUS
Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 GBP
LOT SOLD. 40,000 GBP
Nicolaus Kentner the Elder
ACTIVE IN LIENZ IN THE 1450S
SAINTS GEORGE, JOHN THE BAPTIST AND CYRIACUS
oil on panel
82 x 68 cm.; 32 1/4 x 26 3/4 in.
PROVENANCE
Anonymous sale, Munich, Faber, 18-19 October 1965, lot 71 (as Bohemian school circa 1400-1410), where purchased by the father of the present owner;
Thence by inheritance.
CATALOGUE NOTE
We are grateful to Dr. Robert Suckale for proposing the attribution to Nicholaus Kentner the Elder from Lienz, and for suggesting a dating for the present panel of circa 1430 - 1440. Dr. Suckale notes particular similarities with the frescos by Kentner depicting the Holy trinity with four Angels in the apse of the chapel of Schloss Bruck, near Lienz, which is signed and dated 1452, and further frescos depicted the Seven acts of Mercy, dated to 1454 in the parish church of Saint Andra in Lienz.1
The saint on the right is traditionally identified as the third century Christian martyr Saint Cyriacus, credited with the exorcizing of a demon from the daughter of the Emperor Diocletian, but has also more recently been associated with the local Tyrolean Saint Valentine of Passau.
1. See E. Egg, Kunst in Tirol, vol. I, Innsbruck 1970-72, p. 104, reproduced in black and white p. 105.