St James the Less (?)

St James the Less (?)

BK-NM-1198

sculptor: follower of Master of Koudewater, Northern Brabant

c. 1470 - c. 1500

walnut with remnants of polychromy

height 90 cm x width 28 cm x depth 18 cm

purchase 1875

Public domain

? Commissioned by the Bridgettine abbey Mariënwater, Koudewater, near Rosmalen, c. 1470-1500;{For the history of this abbey 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.} ? transferred to the Bridgettine convent Maria Refugie, Uden, 1713-24;{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. 0013, since 1973

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