Minerva, from the Funerary Monument of Leonard Mathias van der Noot (1676-1753) and Helena Catharina de Jonghe (d. 1745)

Minerva, from the Funerary Monument of Leonard Mathias van der Noot (1676-1753) and Helena Catharina de Jonghe (d. 1745)

BK-1970-137

sculptor: Laurent Delvaux, Nivelles

1746 - 1748

white Carrara marble

height 122 cm x width 118 cm x depth 55 cm x weight 504 kg

Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

purchase 1970

Public domain

Commissioned by Leonard Mathias van der Noot, 3rd Baron of Kieseghem (1676-1753), 1764; installed in the Onze-Vrouwekapel in the monastery church of the Calced Carmelites in Brussels, 1748; transferred to the family of the deceased, 1796-97; collection Maximiliaan Louis Count Van der Noot and Marquess of Assche (1764-1847), Brussels; his son Theodore Charles Antoine Count Van der Noot and Marquess of Assche (1818-1889), Hôtel d’Assche, Brussels; Edouard Dimitri Count Van der Noot and Marquess d’Assche (1860-1928), Brussels; as part of the Hôtel d’Assche on lease to the American ambassador, Brussels, first documented in 1914;{G. Willame, _Laurent Delvaux (1696-1778)_, Brussels/Paris 1914, p. 67, no 138. From 1926 the _hôtel_ was in use as American embassy.} transferred to a house of the d’Assche family on Hertogstraat, Brussels, possibly in 1948;{A. Jacobs, _Laurent Delvaux (Gand, 1696-Nivelles, 1778)_, Paris 1999, p. 345; since 1948 the _hôtel_ is used by the Belgian Council of State.} collection Elisabeth Catherine Adrienne Marie Anne Countess Van der Noot d’Assche (1899-1974), Brussels, placed on the Altar of Our Lady in the Saint-Elisabethkerk, Brussels-Haren, date unknown;{J. de Borchgrave d’Altena, _Notes pour servir à l’inventaire des oeuvres d’art du Brabant, Arrondissement de Bruxelles_ (_Annales de la Société Royale d’Archéologie de Bruxelles: Mémoires, rapports et documents_ 47), Brussels 1947, p. 110, p. 87; A. Jacobs, _Laurent Delvaux (Gand, 1696-Nivelles, 1778)_, Paris 1999, p. 348. The burial chapel of the Van der Noot-d’Assche family was situated in this church until c. 1922, see W. Halsema-Kubes, ‘Laurent Delvaux’ grafmonument voor Leonard Mathias van der Noot en Helena Catharina de Jonghe’, _Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum_ 24 (1976), pp. 123-39, esp. p. 137, note 25. Mathias van der Noot was living in the castle at Haren, see T.-A. (Abbé) Mann, _Description de la ville de Bruxelles ou état présent tant ecclésiastique que civil de cette ville_, Brussels 1785, p. 70.} acquired by the Heim Gallery, London, 1970; from which, £13,325 (fl. 115,469) to the museum, as a gift of the Commissie voor Fotoverkoop, 1970

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