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Cabinet with painted panels
Painted panels by Johann Baptist Baader, c. 1760
Stadtmuseum Weilheim i.OB.
Photograph by G. Freihalter, 2018


From the monastery of Polling Abbey, Polling bei Weilheim, Bavaria. The cabinet probably belonged to the monastery's pharmacist. The paintings are of the following: top left, the mystical marriage of St Catherine; top right,  the beheading of St Catherine; the bottom panels depict vases with flowers and fruit.