Glazed terracotta stove tile depicting the Fool and the nude - Lot 72

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Glazed terracotta stove tile depicting the Fool and the nude - Lot 72
Glazed terracotta stove tile depicting the Fool and the nude woman at the mirror. Upper or Middle Rhine, late 16th century W: 15 cm - H: 13 cm (Fragments, chips) This stove tile is loosely based on an engraving by Master E.S. (1420–1468) from the Upper Rhine, circa 1465, held in the Department of Prints and Photography at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (fig) The female figure follows the traditional iconographic conventions for the depiction of Lust, namely a partially nude woman. Reference work: E. Antoine-König and P.-Y. Le Pogam (eds.), Figures of the Madman, from the Middle Ages to the Romantics, exhibition catalog presented at the Louvre Museum from October 16, 2024, to February 3, 2025, Paris, 2025, no. 57, p. 354.
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