Votive Panel from St. Blasien: Duke Charles V from Lorraine in the Field Camp at Todtmoos
dated 1687 | Johann Georg Glückher
The silver relief was created in thanks for a victory that Duke Charles V of Lorraine achieved over French troops in 1678 in the Black Forest. The imperial general attributed the success to the aid of the miraculous image of Todtmoos. He hence donated this votive panel, in which the miraculous image appears on high, to the pilgrimage church there. From St. Blasien, the panel entered the imperial collections in 1810.
The silver relief was created in thanks for a victory that Duke Charles V of Lorraine achieved over French troops in 1678 in the Black Forest. The imperial general attributed the success to the aid of the miraculous image of Todtmoos. He hence donated this votive panel, in which the miraculous image appears on high, to the pilgrimage church there. From St. Blasien, the panel entered the imperial collections in 1810.
Draft:
Johann Georg Glückher (1653 - 1731 Rottweil) DNB
Artist:
Elias I. Jäger , (Silberschmied) (1653 Augsburg - 1709 Augsburg) DNB
Time:
dated 1687
Object Name
Devotional; Relief
Culture
Rottweil and Augsburg
Material/technology:
Silver
Dimensions:
H. 101,5 cm, B. 190 cm
Signed
Elias Jäger
Inscribed
"DUCI DEO ET MATRI GRATIAE In Todtmos Admirabili Serenissimus Dux Lotharingiae CAROLUS Cum in accessos prius Hercyniae Montes ANNO MDCLXXVIII IN JULIO ALTER JULIUS CAESAR Traducto toto Exercitu Caesareo mirabiliter superasset Hocce gratitudinis monumentum POSUIT" (re. Steintafel); "NON NOBIS DOMINE. NON NOBIS-SED NOMINI TUO DA GLORIAM" (Spruchbänder)
Stamp / markings
ohne BZ; runder Stempel mit Hifthorn (SEL 1755b)
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Kunstkammer
Invs.
Kunstkammer, 884