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Lot description
Finely painted and well-preserved depictions after Both's allegories of the sense of touch ("t' Gevoel") and smell ("De Reuck"). Nikolaus Michael Spengler (1700 - 1776) came from a family of glass painters in Constance who had been engaged in this activity since the 16th century. There are few signed and dated panes by his hand, but the style of painting practiced by his family and the impressive use of lustre pigments on gold and silver leaf are unmistakable. Drawings by the Utrecht artist Andries Both (1612/13 - 1641) from the series of the Five Senses, engraved by his brother Jan Both (1618 - 1652) between 1620 and 1638, served as models for both eglomisé paintings (see Rijksmuseum Amsterdam obj. nos. RP-P-BI-4216 and RP-P-BI-4218). Medium: Eglomisé paintings in lustre pigments on gold and silver leaf and opaque colours between panes of glass, in ebonised and giltwood frames. Niklaus Michael Spengler, Bodensee/Constance, 1756.