Saint Willibrord

Pays-Bas méridionaux | Brabant ou Limbourg
Gothique tardif | Fin du XVe siècle
Chêne | Sculpté en ronde-bosse | Avec des traces de polychromie
H. 100 cm.

PROVENANCE
Collection privée | Valkenswaard | Pays-Bas | Avant 1973
Collection Museum Van Gerwen-Lemmens | Valkenswaard | Pays-Bas | Inv.nr. BG 05307
Vente Sotheby’s | Amsterdam | Collections européennes | 30 septembre 2008 | Lot 412
Avec Floris van Wanroij Fine Art | Dommelen | Pays-Bas | 2010
Collection privée | Wassenaar | Pays-Bas

LITTÉRATURE
Kiesel, G. (1969). Der Heilige Willibrord im Zeugnis der bildenden Kunst. Luxembourg: Ministère des Arts et des Sciences, cat. 15, ill. 18
Gerwen, W. van (1973). Collectie Van Gerwen-Lemmens. Valkenswaard: Galerie Brabant, p.8
Gerwen, Ch. Van & Gerwen, H. van (1981). Collectie Van Gerwen-Lemmens. Schatkamer van de Kempen. Valkenswaard: Museum van Gerwen-Lemmens, pp. 42-43, ill. 15
Gerwen, Ch. Van & Gerwen, H. van (1989). Langs Willibrords wegen. Valkenswaard: ...

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... Museum van Gerwen-Lemmens, pp. 33-34, cat. 15, ill. 18

EXHIBITION
Langs Willibrords wegen. Museum Van Gerwen-Lemmens, Valkenswaard, 1989
On permanent exhibition at Museum Van Gerwen-Lemmens between 1980 and 2008

CATALOGUE NOTE
Saint Willibrord (ca. 658 – 739) was a Northumbrian missionary and is known as the ‘Apostle to the Frisians’ in the modern Netherlands. He became the first Bishop of Utrecht and died at Echternach in Luxembourg. The saint is depicted with his attribute the wine barrel.