ATTRIBUÉ À JOSEPH HEINTZ LE JEUNE (VERS 1600 -... Lot n° 11

THE PROCESSION OF THE REDEMPTOR Canvas 59 x 91 cm Son of Joseph Heintz the Elder, he was introduced to painting by him. Heintz died prematurely in 1609, so in 1617 he entered the studio of Matthäus Gundelach. It is assumed that the young Heintz attended the workshop of Matthias Kager, a well-known illuminator and student of Hans Rottenhammer. From his two masters he acquired a certain taste for detail and phantasmagorical compositions, multiplying the characters in the Nordic manner. We know that he traveled to Italy from 1625, to Rome, but especially to Venice (1632) where he painted "capricciosissimi", where concerts of monsters share the stage with classical or mythological with classical or mythological heroes, not without recalling Jerome Bosch or Pieter Bruegel the Elder. In Venice he found the Folklore and the tradition which he witnessed and which allowed him to develop his art close to an imaginary world. Our work comes from these Venetian traditions, he depicts with meticulousness The Feast of the Redeemer, the original is kept in Venice at the Correr Museum. In 1577, the Doge Sebastiano Venier announced the end of the plague epidemic in the Serenissima. Redeemer built in thanksgiving for the end of the tragedy. A rare testimony of this great feast, our work is not only a technical feat, multiplying the figures, each characterized. It is also a precious historical document, bringing us centuries later an image of what could have been these great Venetian processions Venetian processions. In 1632, Heintz was in Venice, as the votive altarpiece in the church of San Fantino testifies. From 1634 to 1639, he was a member of the painters' guild. Between 1648 and 1649 he painted the Entrance of the Patriarch Federico Corner in San Pietro di Castello, the Bull Hunt in Campo San Polo and Il fresco in barca (Correr Museum in Venice).