Cupboard with Altar, Part of an Ensemble from the Perthaler House
Anton Perthaler
Milbing, Parish of Brannenburg, Rosenheim District, ca 1788
Softwood, painted
166,0 x 61,0 cm
Inv.-Nr. R 7203.1
Acquired in 1899
Gallery 103-104
Anton Perthaler, a carpenter, made his own furniture for his house and added a wooden ceiling, doors, an altar for private devotion and fourteen pictures showing Stations of the Cross. He chose motifs from both the Old and the New Testament for the painted decoration. Elaborately painted on a chalk ground, the pieces he made for his home are unlike other conventional productions by the Perthalers and other carpenters in the Inn Valley. This ceiling and the furniture were in the upper sitting room of the Perthaler House rather than in the ground-floor parlour. Two beds and two single-door cupboards completed the furnishings of the upper room but were not bought with the rest of the appointments in 1899. Despite having come from a carpenter’s house, this room, to which objects from elsewhere were added, was long labelled 'Peasant Room from Degerndorf', after a larger village near to Milbing.
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