Archangel Gabriel, from an Annunciation

Archangel Gabriel, from an Annunciation

BK-NM-1208

• sculptor: follower of Master of Koudewater, Northern Brabant
• sculptor: follower of Master of Koudewater, Lower Rhine region

1470 - 1490

oak with traces of polychromy

height 71 cm

purchase 1875

Public domain

? Commissioned by the Bridgettine abbey Mariënwater, Koudewater, near Rosmalen, c. 1470;{For the history of these abbeys and the transitional period and transfer of the art patrimony, see L.C.B.M. van Liebergen, _Beelden in de abdij: Middeleeuwse kunst uit het noordelijk deel van het hertogdom Brabant_, exh. cat. Uden (Museum voor Religieuze Kunst) 1999, pp. 39-57, 62-64, 97.} or commissioned by the Bridgettine abbey Marienbaum, near Xanten;{Ibid.} transferred to the Bridgettine convent Maria Refugie, Uden, 1713-24 or 1802 respectively;{Ibid.} from where, with numerous other sculptures (BK-NM-1195 to -1243), fl. 2,000 for all, to the Nederlandsch Museum voor Geschiedenis en Kunst, The Hague, 1875; transferred to the museum, 1885; on loan to the Museum Krona (formerly known as the Museum voor Religieuze Kunst), Uden, inv. no. 0020, since 1973

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