Shield of Edward IV (1442-83), King of England, in his Capacity as Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece

Shield of Edward IV (1442-83), King of England, in his Capacity as Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece

SK-A-4641

• inscription, top and bottom: ‘Tres hault Et Tres puissant // Prince Edowart Par la Grace // De dieu Roy dengletre Et Seignr Dyrlande.’
• coat of arms, coat of arms: quartered, 1 and 4, three gold fleurs-de-lis, two above one, on a white field; 2 and 3, three gold lions passant guardant on a red field. Crest: a lion. The shield set within the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece

Wapenbord van Eduard IV (1442-83), koning van Engeland, in zijn hoedanigheid van ridder in de orde van het Gulden Vlies. Hoort bij SK-A-4642. Afkomstig uit het koor van de Sint Jan te Den Bosch en aldaar geplaatst in het houden van de Kapittel in 1481 door Maximiliaan van Oostenrijk. Onderdeel van de collectie heraldische objecten.

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

painter: attributed to Pierre Coustain

c. 1481

olieverf op paneel

• height 120 cm x width 77 cm
• height 111.3 cm x width 68 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1896

Public domain

Placed in the choir of the St Jan´s Cathedral, ´s-Hertogenbosch, on the occasion of the 14th chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1481;{The accounts of Maximilian and Mary of Burgundy from 1481 list a payment: `A Pierre Coustain, varlet de chambre et peintre… pour ouvraiges faitz pour la Thoison tenue à Bois-le-Duc´; see Coninckx 1907, p. 69, Koldeweij in ´s-Hertogenbosch 1990, p. 106, no. 53a-c.} public sale, St Jan´s Cathedral, ´s-Hertogenbosch, 4 June 1798;{Koldeweij in ´s-Hertogenbosch 1990, p. 106, no. 53a-c.} …; ? estate inventory, Andreas J.L. van den Bogaerde van Terbrugge (1787-1855), Kasteel Heeswijk, 1855, no. 438 (`elf verschillende wapenborden´);{Kruijsen 2002, pp. 297, 299.} his sons, Louis M.C. (1826-74) and D.T. Albéric (1829-95), Huis de Nemerlaer, Haaren;{Kruijsen 2002, pp. 289, 293.} their sale, ´s-Hertogenbosch (Van der Does de Willebois), 26 March 1896 sqq., fl. 691.37, with SK-A-4642, to the museum;{There was no printed catalogue for this sale; see Kruijsen 2002, p. 290.} on loan to the Noordbrabants Museum, ´s-Hertogenbosch, since 1987

Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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