#limewood

King Louis II of Hungary as Child (1506-1526)

Artist: Bernhard Strigel (German, 1460-1528)

Date: After 1515

Medium: Lime wood

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria

Louis II of Hungary

Bohemian parcel-gilt polychrome figure of St Barbara (limewood, c.1430-50)

Carved relief, limewood, 70 × 48cm 1791 Aubert-Henri-Joseph Parent

"In response to the tumultuous political events of the French Revolution, Aubert Parent created this allegory of the French monarchy and the drafting of the new constitution by the National Assembly. On September 14, 1791, Louis XVI took an oath to support the new political regime. Parent's relief, carved from a single piece of limewood, links a medallion of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, symbolizing the French king, with a medallion of the Roman Senate, representing the National Assembly. The dead bird (the old regime) and the unguarded nest (France) symbolize the failure of the new constitution and the end of the monarchy."

Femmy Otten (NL 1981)

Untitled (2014)

Volker Hermes, “Hidden Portraits” 

Left: Giusto Suttermans, Portrait of Eleonora Gonzaga (1598–1655), half-length, as a bride, oil on canvas, 31 x 25¾ in. (78.7 x 65.5 cm.) Right: Volker Hermes, Hidden Sustermans, 2020, Photographic collage, edition 5 + 1AP, 70 x 60 cm,

Left: Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Alla fontana (Le due colombe), signed and dated 'V. Corcos/96.' (on the pillar, lower right), oil on canvas, 82¼ x 59 in. (208.9 x 149.9 cm.) Right: Volker Hermes, Hidden Corcos, 2020, Photographic collage, edition 5 + 1AP, 100 x 75 cm,

Christian Daniel Rauch, Bust of Luise Engel as Flora, Marble; on a circular marble socle, 21½ x 12 x 6 in. (54.6 x 30.5 x 15.2 cm.) Volker Hermes, Hidden Rauch, 2020, Photographic collage, edition 5 + 1AP, 50 x 40 cm,

Left: Tom Edwin Mostyn, R.O.I., R.W.A. (British, 1864–1930), Vanity, signed and dated 'Tom Mostyn 03/04' (lower let); titled, signed and inscribed 'VANITY/TOM MOSTYN/Melina Place/St John's Wood/ London.' (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 69½ x 50½ in. (176.5 x 128.3 cm.) Right: Volker Hermes, Hidden Mostyn, 2020, Photographic collage, edition 5 + 1AP, 80 x 60 cm,

Left: Christiaen Van Couwenbergh (Delft 1604–1667 Cologne), Bacchus holding a roemer and a bunch of grapes, possibly a portrait of the artist, oil on canvas, 26⅞ x 22⅞ in. (68.3 x 58.1 cm.) Volker Hermes, Hidden Couwenbergh, 2020, Photographic collage, edition 5 + 1AP, 70 x 60 cm,

Left: Sir Henry Raeburn, R.A. (Stockbridge 1756–1823 Edinburgh), Lieutenant Colonel George Allan of the 16th Hussars, ‘The Hussar’, oil on canvas, 35⅝ x 27¾ in. (90.5 x 70.5 cm.) Right: Volker Hermes, Hidden Raeburn III, 2020, Photographic collage, edition 5 + 1AP, 100 x 78 cm,

Left: German, Possibly School of Ulm and Circa 1500, A Carved A Limewood Reliquary Group of Saint George and the Dragon, (15¼ in. high, 12 in. wide, 6¾ in. deep) Right: Volker Hermes, Hidden Reliquary, 2020, Photographic collage, edition 5 + 1AP, 50 x 40 cm