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Wilhelm Ziegler, a German painter active in the early sixteenth century, created this work around 1525. The illegible inscription suggests the painting may have been part of a larger program with identifying text. The painting is in the Musées Nationaux Récupération collection. The tempera-on-panel medium required a carefully gessoed surface and was painted in fine, precise layers, yielding a luminous, jewel-like surface of great durability.

The painting demonstrates the workshop conventions of early sixteenth-century German painting. The damaged inscription indicates the original context included textual identification.