Title(s)

Gedecoreerd balkon van het stadhuis van Gent
Bretèche, XVIe Siècle (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1739-35

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Bretèche ou balcon (...)’
• inscription: ‘LITT. B. - PL. 11’
• monogram: ‘JJvY’

Artist

• anonymous
• Joseph Maes (possibly)
• after design by: Christoffel Plantijn (mentioned on object)

Place

Ghent
Antwerp
after design by: Antwerp

Dating

c. 1875 - in or before 1880

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype / photolithography

Measurements

height 340 mm × width 230 mm

What

• balcony
• townhall

Where

• Stadhuis

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Documents classés de l'art dans les Pays-Bas du Xe au XVIIIe siècle / J.J. van Ysendijck (RP-F-2001-7-1739)

• La Belgique au moyen-âge
• 'Keuze uit de aanwinsten : fotografie', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 50 (2002) 2, p. 341-343, p. 342 (afb.), nr. 15.