Isabella van Bourbon & Pleurants

Pseudo Philips van Nevers (?-1415), afkomstig van het praalgraf van Isabella van Bourbon

BK-AM-33-E

• on the back, at the bottom, incised after casting and finishing: indistinguishable location mark
• number, on the back, at the top, in modern white paint: ‘4’

Mary of Burgundy had a mausoleum erected for her late mother, Isabella of Bourbon. Only the gisant (tomb effigy) of Isabella and 10 of the 24 figures originally surrounding the tomb have been preserved. These pleurants (weepers) represent five generations of grieving forebears. While the tomb commemorated Isabella, it mainly served to advertise Mary’s noble lineage. She was the sole remaining heir of the Dukes of Burgundy and therefore a highly desirable consort. A year after the monument was completed, she married Maximilian of Habsburg, whereby the Burgundian Netherlands became part of the vast Holy Roman Empire.

Zie koepelrecord.

• sculptor: attributed to Borman werkplaats
• caster: attributed to Renier van Thienen (I), Brussels

c. 1475 - c. 1476

height 55.5 cm x width 25.5 cm x depth 12.5 cm

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Public domain

Commissioned by Mary of Burgundy (1457-1482), Brussels, as part of the tomb of her mother, Isabella of Bourbon (1436-1465), 1475; installed in the Sint-Michielsabdij, Antwerp, 1476; ? dismantled during the iconoclast uprising, August 1566; ...; collection Jan de Vos, Amsterdam, before or in 1691; his son Pieter de Vos, Amsterdam, March 1691; from whom acquired by the City of Amsterdam, and installed in the `Thesaurie Ordinaris´ of the Town Hall (at Dam Square), Amsterdam, 1691; transferred to the Cabinet of Curiosities in the same building, April 1806; transferred to the Cabinet of Curiosities in the Town Hall (Prinsenhof), Amsterdam, 1808; transferred to the `Historische Tentoonstelling´ in the Oude Mannenhuis, Amsterdam, 1876; transferred to the Amsterdams Museum in the same building, 1877;{Provenance reconstructed in H.J. Wiggers, `De stad Amsterdam en haar vroegste beeldencollectie´, in M. Jonker et al., _In beeld gebracht. Beeldhouwkunst uit de collectie van het Amsterdams Historisch Museum_, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1995, pp. 60-75 and H. Vreeken in ibid., nos. 21-30.} on loan to the museum, since 1887

• Zie koepelrecord.
• Frits Scholten, 'Isabella's pleurants : een Bourgondische stamboom in beeld', Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant 33 (2007), nr. 2, p. 10-13, afb..

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200115777