Tag: Christoph Gertner

01 painting, The amorous game, Christoph Gertner’s Mercenary Love, with Footnotes #95

May 24, 2023

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Sold for EUR 46,080.- in November 2022 The subject of matchmaking is a recurrent theme in North European painting. In the present painting the notion of a transaction is implicit and the painting appears to be an allegory of mercenary love. On the table are coins and wine which are emblematic of vice. Christoph Gertner was probably…