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

• 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

BK-KOG-664

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

c. 1510 - c. 1520

eikenhout met sporen van polychromie

height 85 cm x width 26.5 cm x depth 6 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 Daniel Franken Dzn (1838-1898), Amsterdam and Le Vésinet;{Note KOG.} by whom donated to the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, 1868; on loan to the museum since 1885

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200115796