Anton Schiffer

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1832

Oil on canvas
45.4 x 57.5 cm

• signed and dated: "MDCCCXXXII, A. SCHIFFER"
• condition: very good, hand-crafted wooden frame of the period, leaf-gilt
• Anton Schiffer shows in this early work the historical scene of an Inquisition process under the dirction of the Roman Catholic Church, where the delinquent is presented to the inqusitor