Tapestry with the arms of Emperor Charles V, Willem de Pannemaker, c. 1540 - c. 1555

Identification

Title(s)

Tapestry with the arms of Emperor Charles V
Verdure met het wapen van keizer Karel V

Object type

Object number

BK-17260-A

Inscriptions / marks

mark: ‘BB, waartussen een hart’

Description

Verdure met het wapen van keizer Karel V. Wapentapijt.

Creation

Artist

maker: Willem de Pannemaker

Place

Brussels

Dating

c. 1540 - c. 1555

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

tapestry

Measurements

height c. 201 cm × height 197 cm × width c. 172.5 cm × width 170.5 cm

Explanatory note

T.P. Campbell, Henry VIII and the art of his majesty, New Haven en Londen 2007, p. 147, afb. 8.3. Vermeldt een wandtapijt uit dezelfde serie.

Subject

What

When

1500 - 1550

Who

Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain)

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1960

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? Commissioned by or for Kaiser Karl V (1500-58), San Jerónimo de Yuste; ? from the collection of the Habsburgs to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna;{Note RMA.} from whom acquired by the dealer N.V. Internationale Antiquiteitenhandel Amsterdam, with BK-17260-B and three other objects, in exchange for the Wiltener Kelch, 1938;{KHM Archive, 230-2-KL-38, Ausfolging der Gegenstände an Antiquiteitenhandel Amsterdam, 21 September 1938, nos. 4 - 5.} …; purchased from the estate of Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Relations

Documentation

1100-1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, cat.nr. 82
1100 - 1600, Reinier J. Baarsen, Frits Scholten, cat.nr. 82
De geschiedenis van Nederland in 100 voorwerpen, Gijs van der Ham, p. 70 - 74, cat.nr. 11
Wandtapijten in Oost-Vlaams provinciaal bezit, Ingrid De Meûter, p. 31, afb. 12
European tapestries in the Rijksmuseum, p. 75-79 met afb., cat.nr. 21a
Tapestry in the Renaissance : art and magnificence, Thomas P. Campbell, Maryan Wynn Ainsworth, Bruce M. White, p. 268, fig. III
Kaiser Karl V. (1500-1558) : Macht und Ohnmacht Europas [ : 1 2000b], Wilfried Seipel, cat.nr. 366
Arazzi del cinquecento a Como, Nello Forti Grazzini, p. 91
Wandtapijten 2 : Renaissance, Manierisme en Barok, Anna Maria Louise Elisabeth Mulder-Erkelens, p. 3-4, 7-8, 12
Wandteppiche, Heinrich Göbel, p. 315
Die Wiener Gobelin-Sammlung, Hermann Schmitz
Die Wiener Gobelinsammlung [ : 1 1920], Ludwig Baldass, cat.nr. 64
E. Ritter von Birk, 'Inventar der im Besitze des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses befindlichen Niederländer Tapeten und Gobelins', Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen des allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses, Vienna I (1883), p. 240 cat. XXXI-II/6.
R. Bauer, 'Veränderungen im Inventarbestand der Tapisseriensammlung des Kunsthistorischen Museums in Wien', Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 76 (1980), p. 136-137, 139-140.

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