Carved and sawn. The sides and top of the caisse is painted oxblood red. 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. According to dendrochronological analysis by M. Domínguez Delmás the planks of caisses BK-1964-2-D and -E originate from two different oak trees that grew in the eastern Baltic. The felling date of one of the trees is ‘after 1408’ (because of the absence of xylem it is not possible to give a more accurate felling date). The felling date of the other tree is ‘between 1438 and 1450’.

…; 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);¹¹Note RMA. from whom purchased by the dealer P. Drey, New York, 1962;²²Note RMA. from whom, with BK-1964-2-A to -E, $ 14,400 for all, to the museum, 1964

Object number: BK-1964-2-D

See the entry on BK-1962-33.

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

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: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/20035537