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anonymous

Altar Caisse

Southern Netherlands, c. 1440

Object data

oak with polychromy

height 97.8 cm × width 58.9 cm × depth 22.3 cm

Inscriptions

  • number, on the inside, on the bottom, scratched: XII

Technical notes

Carved, sawn and polychromed. The back of the caisse is constructed from three oak planks approximately 1.3 cm thick. The sides are joined to the top and bottom with dovetail joints.

Conservation

  • W.J. Mares, 1971: dirty layers and overpainting removed; flaking paint secured with beeswax; old nailed joints replaced with wooden dowelling joints; the tracery in the bottom of the caisse replaced correctly.

Provenance

...; anonymous sale, Munich (Weinmüller), 7 December 1961, no. 828, fig. 50, with BK-1964-2-C to -E, to the dealers Graf und Gräfin Pourtalès, Prien am Chiemsee (Bavaria);1 from whom purchased by the dealer P. Drey, New York, 1962;2 from whom, with BK-1964-2-A to -E, $ 14,400 for all, to the museum, 1964

Object number: BK-1964-2-C

Copyright: Public domain

Literature

J. Leeuwenberg with the assistance of W. Halsema-Kubes, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1973, no. 8, with earlier literature; P. van Boheemen and P. Dirkse (eds.), Duivels en demonen. De duivel in de Nederlandse beeldcultuur, exh. cat. Utrecht (Museum Catharijneconvent) 1994, no. 42, pp. 60-62 and fig. 51; K.W. Woods, ‘Questions d’attribution stylistique. Retables inédits en Angleterre’, in S. Guillot de Suduiraut et al., Retables brabançons des XVe et XVIe siècles: Actes du colloque organisé par le musée du Louvre les 18 et 19 mai 2001, Paris 2002, pp. 345-76, esp. p. 355; S. Marti et al. (eds.), Karl der Kühne (1433-1477): Kunst, Krieg und Hofkultur, exh. cat. Bern (Bern Historical Museum)/Bruges (Groeningemuseum) 2008, p. 205

Citation

F. Scholten, 2024, 'anonymous, Altar Caisse, Southern Netherlands, c. 1440', in F. Scholten and B. van der Mark (eds.), European Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.24238

(accessed 20 September 2024 01:47:28).

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