Lot 117: s - Ottmar Elliger the Elder Göteborg 1633 - 1679 Berlin , AN UNSTRETCHED CANVAS WITH A REPRESENTATION OF THE HOLY FAMILY, AFFIXED TO A WALL oil on canvas, unframed

signed and dated: Ottmar Elliger Fecit 1675 oil on canvas, unframed

77.5 by 58.5 cm.

With Newhouse Galleries, New York, by 1988.

This is an excellent example of a rare trompe l'oeil painted by an artist far better known for other types of painting: in particular flower and fruit still lifes. As a still life it is wholly infamilar, but the feathery brushwork in the depiction of the Holy Family is recognisable from his few history pictures.