AN OAKWOOD COPY OF ONE OF THE MOURNERS FROM THE TOMB OF ISABELLA OF BOURBON, a woman walking, in mediaeval costume, 19th century

细节

AN OAKWOOD COPY OF ONE OF THE MOURNERS FROM THE TOMB OF ISABELLA OF BOURBON, a woman walking, in mediaeval costume, 19th century
56.8 cm high

出版

cf. J. Leeuwenberg, W. Halsema-Kubes, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1973, p. 43, inv.nr. Am. 33-1

拍品专文

The walking woman is one of a series of 24 bronze mourners - relatives of the deceased -, which once belonged to the tomb of Isabella of Bourbon. The tomb was erected 11 years after her death in 1476 at the instance of her daughter Mary of Bourbon in the abbey of St. Michael in Antwerp. In 1806 the tomb was moved to The Cathedral in Antwerp. The mourners have disappeared meanwhile. In 1691 a group of ten mourners, among which the 'walking woman', turned up in Amsterdam and are now in the Rijksmuseum (op.cit., p. 40-45)