German baroque painter, end of the 17th century, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula of Cologne, oil on wood, parquet (Florentine parquetry), 49 x 64 cm, the multi-figure painting shows the moment when Ursula refuses to marry the prince of the Huns and is shot by him with an arrow, while the maidens accompanying her and her fiancé Aetherius (in the lower right foreground with the royal insignia) have already been slain, in the background precise depiction of the city silhouette of Cologne at that time with the cathedral crane dismantled only in 1868 (at the time of the painting's creation all building activity at the cathedral was suspended), the expansive gestures, the spatial foreshortening of the murdered as well as Ursula's pathetic look speak for a period of origin after knowledge of the work by Bernardo Strozzi and Peter Paul Rubens, framed in gilt molding with pearl bar, overall size: 59 x 74 cm_x000D_ limit 5400,-