anonymous

Altar Caisse

Southern Netherlands, c. 1440

Inscriptions

  • number, on the inside, on the bottom, scratched:XII

Technical notes

Carved, sawn and polychromed. The back of the caisse is constructed from three oak planks approximately 1.3 cm thick. The sides are joined to the top and bottom with dovetail joints.


Conservation

  • W.J. Mares, 1971: dirty layers and overpainting removed; flaking paint secured with beeswax; old nailed joints replaced with wooden dowelling joints; the tracery in the bottom of the caisse replaced correctly.

Provenance

...; anonymous sale, Munich (Weinmüller), 7 December 1961, no. 828, fig. 50, with BK-1964-2-C to -E, to the dealers Graf und Gräfin Pourtalès, Prien am Chiemsee (Bavaria);1Note RMA. from whom purchased by the dealer P. Drey, New York, 1962;2Note RMA. from whom, with BK-1964-2-A to -E, $ 14,400 for all, to the museum, 1964

ObjectNumber: BK-1964-2-C


Entry

See the entry on BK-1962-33.


Literature

J. Leeuwenberg with the assistance of W. Halsema-Kubes, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, coll. cat. Amsterdam 1973, no. 8, with earlier literature; P. van Boheemen and P. Dirkse (eds.), Duivels en demonen. De duivel in de Nederlandse beeldcultuur, exh. cat. Utrecht (Museum Catharijneconvent) 1994, no. 42, pp. 60-62 and fig. 51; K.W. Woods, ‘Questions d’attribution stylistique. Retables inédits en Angleterre’, in S. Guillot de Suduiraut et al., Retables brabançons des XVe et XVIe siècles: Actes du colloque organisé par le musée du Louvre les 18 et 19 mai 2001, Paris 2002, pp. 345-76, esp. p. 355; S. Marti et al. (eds.), Karl der Kühne (1433-1477): Kunst, Krieg und Hofkultur, exh. cat. Bern (Bern Historical Museum)/Bruges (Groeningemuseum) 2008, p. 205


Citation

F. Scholten, 2024, 'anonymous, Altar Caisse, Southern Netherlands, c. 1440', in F. Scholten and B. van der Mark (eds.), European Sculpture in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.24238

(accessed 25 March 2025 05:24:49).

Footnotes

  • 1Note RMA.
  • 2Note RMA.