Christ at the Scourge Column
Sculpture made of alabaster. A polygonal pedestal rises on a square plate placed over a corner, with openwork volutes curved outwards on both sides. In the middle oval cartouche framed by palmettes and volutes. The slender figure of Christ is marked by the torments experienced with left standing leg and right playing leg, the left hip bent out, the upper body turned to the left, the head tilted to the right. The crossed hands are fixed with ropes to a baluster-shaped, square flagellum column. Frame: Incarnate of Christ brownish, eyes blue, hair dark blond; palmettes of the base and the cartouche as well as the loincloth gilded; base and column grey, base dark green. On the cartouche in ink: Ego in Flagella potatus sum Psal XXX VII F XVIV; signed on the reverse: A H
The fingers of the left, index finger and ring finger of the right hand and the big toe of the left foot are missing. Inscription partly blurred. Restoration: Right upper and lower arm and the hand glued.
Purchase 1937
Munich Art Auction House Adolf Weinmüller
Provenance research: auctioned for 35.00 RM, cf. auction catalogue Weinmüller (Munich), cat. 7, 02./04.03.1937, no. 352; consignor: "E. i. M.". (= art dealer Theodor Einstein & Co., Maximilianstraße, Munich).
Museen der Stadt Regensburg
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Germany