Two kneeling prophets (from a reliquary châsse)

• Two kneeling prophets (from a reliquary châsse)
• Kneeling Prophet

BK-16925-B

De gegoten en vervolgens bijgeciseleerde figuur is in houding (van hoofd, armen en benen) tegengesteld aan zijn tegenhanger (BK-16925-A). Zijn kleding bestaat uit pij, mantel en kap. Haar en baard bedekken de hals geheel. Het heeft aan de achterkant een versteviging, waarin een rechthoekig gat is uitgespaard en waarin de oorspronkelijke pin nog aanwezig is.

inscription, on the bottom, in red paint: ‘PM 532’

• brass caster: anonymous, France
• brass caster , Southern Netherlands

c. 1400 - c. 1410

gilded bronze

height 10.75 cm

Public domain

…; collection John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York;{Von Bode 1910, I, p. 8, nos. 25 and 26.}…; from the dealer Duveen, with BK-16925-B, $4,500 to Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1929;{GRI, Digital Collections, Duveen Brothers records, Series II.I, Collectors’ files: Mannheimer, F., ca. 1924-1948, image 171, Memorandum of Shipment, d.d. 12 December 1929, no. 29015 and 29016 and image 169, Internal note between Duveen New York and Duveen London, d.d. 13 December 1929.} from whom, fl. 6,350,000, _en bloc_, to Artistic & General Securities Ltd. as security for a loan from the Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, but kept in usufruct, 1934;{NHA, 476, RMA Archive, inv. no. 2142, Recapitulatie der geïnventariseerde kunstvoorwerpen van wijlen Dr F. Mannheimer, undated, p. 86, nos. Br 17 a-b, Artistic no. 12/68; NHA, 233, Arrondissementsrechtbank Amsterdam, inv. no. 1365, “O.R. 256/1939, Faillissementsdossier: nalatenschap Dr F. Mannheimer, 28 augustus 1939”, image 3, page 2.} purchased from Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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