Adriaen van Wesel

Joseph with Three Musician Angels, from a Nativity

Utrecht, c. 1475 - c. 1477

Figures

fig. a Adriaen van Wesel, Emperor Augustus with the Tiburtine Sibyl, c. 1475-77. Oak with polychromy and gilding, 48.2 x 34.5 x c. 17 cm (without caisse). Den Bosch, Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady, Museum Het Zwanenbroederhuis, inv. no. B7

fig. b Adriaen van Wesel, St John on Patmos, c. 1475-77. Oak with polychromy and gilding, 47.4 x 33.9 x c. 17 cm (without caisse). Den Bosch, Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady, Museum Het Zwanenbroederhuis, inv. no. B8

fig. c Reconstruction of Adriaen van Wesel’s Marian altar with the probable positions of the five pieces in the Rijksmuseum – The Nativity, Joseph with Three Musician Angels, The Meeting of the Magi, The Visitation and The Death of the Virgin – and the two small caisses that are still with the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady in Den Bosch containing Emperor Augustus with the Tiburtine Sibyl and St John on Patmos. Visualisation by Ineke de Graaff

fig. b Adriaen van Wesel, St John on Patmos, c. 1475-77. Oak with polychromy and gilding, 47.4 x 33.9 x c. 17 cm (without caisse). Den Bosch, Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady, Museum Het Zwanenbroederhuis, inv. no. B8

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