Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Drawings & Prints the painting signed & dated

the painting signed & dated "Frobenius 1900"

5" tall X 13" wide (framed)

From a prominent Middle Eastern collection

a pair of curved bentwood arms and a slatted seat

Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500 Drawings & Prints the painting signed & datedAn exceptionally rare antique German Renaissance carving by Stephan Rottaler (1581 1533), Bavaria circa 1500. The carving is by Stephan Rottaler, Landshut, Germany, an architect who was a leading figure of Bavarian sculpture in both wood and stone at the beginning of the Renaissance, he produced altars, figures of saints and funerary sculptures. The bust displays a young boy, possibly a novitiate or monastic trainee, the bust is sensitively and finely