Richard von Kaufmann, by 1901;
His deceased sale, Berlin, Cassirer & Helbing, 4 December 1917, lots 149-152 (as by Hans Leonhard Schäufelin);
L. & A. Satori;
Their sale, Vienna, Kend🔯e, 29-♈30 April 1936, lot 193 (as by Hans Leonhard Schäufelin).

 

M.J. Friedländer, `Malerei.  Niederländer und Deutsche', in W. von Bode (ed.), Renaissance-Ausstellung Berlin 1898, Berlin 1898, pp. 30ff;
Katalog Sammlung Kaufmann, Berlin 1901, p. X, no. 63;
M.J. Friedländer, Die Sammlung Richard von Kaufmann, Berlin Auction catalogue, Munich 1917, p. 288ff (as by Hans Leonhard Schäufelin);
H. Schmitz, `Oberdeutschland im 15./16. Jahrhundert', in F. Burger (ed.), Die deutsche Malerei vom ausgehenden Mittelalter bis zum Ende der Renaissance (Handbuch der Kunstwissenschaft), vol. 3, Berlin 1919, p. 613 (as by Hans Leonhard Schäufelin);
C. Metzger, Hans Schäufelin als Maler, Berlin 2002, p. 558. no. X-127 (under Kataloganhang II.  Nicht von Schäufelin, as the wings of a small altarpiece, perhaps from Augsburg).

A set of four: all four panels are backed with leather, and all four are flat, stable, and uncradled. Each of these works is in very good condition. No major losses or damages are visible to the naked eye or under UV. Only the picture depicting St. Catherine has an area of retouching above the figures head, and a thin vertical line of retouching to the left of her head. All four pictures are in carved wooden frames. Each may be hung as is.
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