Cartouche from the Facade of the Amsterdam Soldatengasthuis (Soldier’s Hospital)

Sculpted in relief and possibly originally polychromed.

Commissioned by the City of Amsterdam and installed in the facade of the Soldatengasthuis, Amsterdam, 1587;¹¹B. van der Mark, ‘Soldiers at an Encampment, Stone Tablet from the Amsterdam Soldatengasthuis (Soldier’s Hospital)’, in F. Scholten and B. van der Mark (eds.), European Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam 2020. removed from the facade, 1888;²²Note RMA. on loan from the City of Amsterdam, to the museum, since 1888  

ObjectNumber: BK-AM-77-B

Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam

See the entry on BK-AM-77-A.

J. Leeuwenberg with the assistance of W. Halsema-Kubes, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1973, no. 210, with earlier literature; O.W. Broers, De gevelstenen van Amsterdam, Hilversum 2007, no. 671A

B. van der Mark, 2024, 'anonymous, Cartouche from the Facade of the Amsterdam Soldatengasthuis (Soldier’s Hospital), Amsterdam, 1587', in F. Scholten and B. van der Mark (eds.), European Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.25991