Title(s)

Messing doopvont in de Sint-Martinusbasiliek in Halle, België
Fonts Baptismaux, XVe siècle (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1742-47

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘FONTS BAPTISMAUX en (...)’
• inscription: ‘FONTS BAPTISMAUX. - PL. 5.’
• monogram: ‘JJvY’

Artist

• photographer: anonymous
• Joseph Maes (possibly)
• after design by: anonymous

Place

photographer: Sint-Martinusbasiliek
Antwerp

Dating

c. 1882 - in or before 1887

Material

• paper

Technique

collotype / photolithography

Measurements

height 342 mm × width 231 mm

What

• baptismal font

Where

• Sint-Martinusbasiliek

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-2001-7-1742)

• 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.