Panels from an organ case in the church of Saint Vitus in Naarden

• Panel with a Knight Supporting an Escutcheon, from the Organ of the Sint-Vituskerk, Naarden
• Panels from an organ case in the church of Saint Vitus in Naarden

BK-KOG-669-B

These ten figures adorned the medieval organ in the church of Saint Vitus in Naarden. Each figure holds a weapon and a coat of arms on a strap. Some are dressed as knights with a breastplate and a helmet, others as princes or noblemen. They may represent the Counts of Holland. All the shields would have originally been painted.

• sculptor: Jan van Schayck, Utrecht
• sculptor: Adriaen van Wesel, Utrecht [rejected]

c. 1510 - c. 1520

eikenhout met sporen van polychromie

height 84.8 cm x width 24 cm x depth 5 cm

On loan from the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap

Public domain

...; part of the organ of the Sint-Vituskerk, Naarden, dismantled in 1862;{E. Colinet and A.D. de Vries Az, _Kunstvoorwerpen uit vroegere eeuwen_, exh. cat. Amsterdam (Paleis voor Volksvlijt) 1877, commentary pl. XXVII.} purchased by M. van Vledder, Harderwijk, 1862;{Note KOG.} from whom purchased by Lieutenant General Meyers, Brussels, first documented in 1877;{Meyers, _Collection d´objets d´art ancienes: Pièces choisies dans le cabinet d´un amateur_, Brussels 1877, pl. 9.} from whom, fl. 2,400, to the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, 1881; on loan to the museum since 1885

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