Putto, Supporting Figure from the Pulpit in the Sint-Pauluskerk in Antwerp, Erasmus Quellinus (I) (attributed to workshop of), in or before 1636

Commissioned for the pulpit of the Sint-Pauluskerk, Antwerp, before 1636;{The _terminus ante quem_ is based on the pulpit’s depiction in a painting by Pieter Neefs dated 1636 at the Rijksmuseum, inv. no. SK-A-288.} pulpit dismantled, 1874;{Written communication Ad. Jansen to the dealer Jan van Herck, before 1970, in Object File RMA; oral communication Ray Sirjacobs, 2 June 1993. It has also been erroneously suggested that the putto originally formed part of the church’s old organ.} …; from the dealer Jan van Herck, Antwerp, bf. 125,000 (fl. 9,144), to the museum, as a gift from the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop, 1970

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