Lot 121: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794-1872)

The Crucifixion signed and dated 'JS 1843' and inscribed 'INRI' black chalk, brown wash squared in black chalk, watermark J Honig & Sons 271/4 x 333/4 in. (693 x 604 mm.) NOTES A modello for the large picture painted in 1843 for the Protestant church of St. Matth„us in Munich (S. Seeliger, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, exhib. cat., Mainz, Landesmuseum and elsewhere, 1995, p. 164, illustrated). The picture used to stand on the main altar of the church but was taken down in 1938. Another preparatory study for that altarpiece, with numerous minor differences, is in a private collection (S. Seelinger, op. cit., no. 69). The composition was engraved by Paul Barfus in 1857 (S. Seeliger, op. cit., p. 24, fig. 4).