Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst und Geschiedenis (Musée du Cinquantenaire)
Inv. 7855
Head of deceased lady with wimple.
Brussels 1964: Flanders, 15th century.
Attribution
Unknown
Reverse
Conical cavity (end of the nerve canal?). Traces of glue.
Comments
Inscription on the base: 'D.E.L. FIT'. Jansen suggested this could depict saint Anne (Brussels 1964).
Provenance
Given by Baroness Louis Steens in 1945 in memory of her son René.
Bibliography
A. Jansen, Christelijke Kunst tot het einde der Middeleeuwen - Art chrétien jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Age, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis-Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1964, no. 292, pl. CXXVII, fig. 272.
KIK/IRPA database: http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/wwwopac/en/object.html [accessed October 2009].
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