Showing posts with label A.S. Drey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A.S. Drey. Show all posts

Friday, 12 June 2015

A Leaf from the Sigmaringen Psalter Re-Emerges


The catalogue of the forthcoming Sotheby's summer sale of medieval and renaissance manuscripts (available online) includes, as lot 16, a leaf with a miniature in two compartments that I discussed in a previous post:
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The zoomable online image allows one to study details of the wonderful painting as never before:

Saturday, 18 October 2014

Long-Lost Miniatures from the Sigmaringen Psalter

Looking at the Lost Art website in connection with this blog post, I encountered this image:
The accompanying text states that this leaf was auctioned in Berlin in 1936, in a forced liquidation sale of 500 objects owned by the Jewish art dealer A.S. Drey: