St Christopher, anonymous, 1520

Identification

Title(s)

St Christopher

Object type

sculpture

Object number

BK-NM-2950

Creation

Artist

sculptor: anonymous

Place

Brabant

Dating

1520

Material and Technique

Physical features

oak with traces of polychromy

Material

oak (wood)

Measurements

height 54 cm × width 15 cm × depth 13.5 cm

Subject

What

St. Christopher, with the infant Christ on his shoulders, wading through the water and carrying his staff (palm-tree); sometimes a hermit stands on the further bank beside a chapel, a lantern in his hand

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

transferred 1883

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Gérard Charles Hubert Guillon (1811-1873) and shown in his Musée Guillon at the Swalmerstraat, Roermond; his sale, Roermond (Max. Cornelis), 30 November-14 December 1874, no. 21; …; from the Muncipality of Goor on loan to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, since 1876; transferred to the museum, 1885

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum [Amsterdam], Jaap Leeuwenberg, cat.nr. 168
Catalogus van de beeldhouwwerken in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam [1915], p. 63, cat.nr. 221
Die Holzskulptur in den Niederlanden, Marinus van Notten, Willem Vogelsang, dl. 2, nr. 27, pl. 22
Catalogus van de beeldhouwwerken in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam [1904], p. 13, cat.nr. 44

Persistent URL

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