Model of a Figurehead

Netherlands, c. 1800 - c. 1850

Object data

wood

height 40 cm × width 53.5 cm × depth 7.7 cm

Inscriptions

label, on the cutwater: 1044 former inventory label

Provenance

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1044

Entry

Wooden model of a figurehead on the knee of the head, mounted on a base, incomplete. The figure is of a running man in Roman dress and armour, his right arm pointing forward, in his left hand a bundle of arrows. The object that he held in his right hand has broken off. With his right foot he is treading on a dragon. The base and the knee of the head are decorated with relief carvings of foliage. The figure represents Mars.

Scale unknown.

Literature

J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1044; J.C.A. Schokkenbroek and C.E. Zonnevylle-Heyning, Kunst op het water. Nederlandse scheepssier 1650-1850, Zutphen 1995

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Figurehead, Netherlands, c. 1800 - c. 1850', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244859

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