Hornstain, Gabriel (Hornstein)

Styria (?), 1st half of the 17th century. The Flagellation of Christ. Pen-and-ink drawing in black, with gray wash, edged with black pen, on laid paper with a fragment of the watermark: crowned coat of arms? Signed below. "Gabriel Ho:", numbered "No 488" by a later hand on the verso. 24.9 x 19.4 cm. Depiction closed in a round arch at the top and with retracted corners. - Small tears and losses, especially in the margins, carefully restored. Provenance: Auction Karl & Faber, Munich, 29.11. - 1.12.1962, cf. no. 194; Collection Herbert List, Munich, not in Lugt; A.Pertsch, Mannheim; Auction A. Winterberg, Heidelberg, 15.4.1972, cf. no. 108; Catalogue 31, Joseph Fach, Frankfurt a.M., 1984, cf. nos. 3 and 4, illus. page 7; Catalogue 55, Joseph Fach, Frankfurt a.M., 1992, cf. no. 3 with col. Literature: exhib. Catalog: Drawings from five centuries. A Stuttgart private collection (W. Sumowski). Stuttgart, 1999, cf. no. 98, ill. 21. D