Antique Catholic German Renaissance Carving Bust Stephan Rottaler Landshut 1500

An 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 carved and polychromed. The bust pre-dates the German Reformation by half a century!The carving has excellent provenance, previously in the collection of famous banker & art collector Jakob Goldschmidt (1882-1955), the carving was then sold in 1959 by the celebrated art dealer John J Klejman of the J.J. Klejman Gallery Madison Avenue New York. The celebrated art dealer and collector Mr. Lawrence A. Fleischman (1925-1997), owner of the Kennedy Galleries in Manhattan, he acquired the carved bust from The Klejman Gallery in 1959 for $1100