SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA WITH JESUS, MALINAS. WOOD. MECHELEN, 16TH CENTURY.
Antiques - Furniture
Reference: ZF0907
Saint Anthony with the Child Jesus. Wood. Mechelen School, 16th century. A carved wooden sculpture, worked, as was customary in that center, on the front because it was intended to be placed on an altar, depicting Saint Anthony of Padua with the Christ Child seated on a book, in one of the most common iconographies for this Franciscan saint. The influence of the Mechelen school is evident in the figures' features, the remnants of polychromy, and other aspects. The "poupées malinoises" or "Malines dolls" are small sculptures of saints made in the late 15th and early 16th centuries in the workshops of Mechelen (Flanders). They were known by these names because their faces resembled those of dolls or "poupins." They were sometimes also called "chop sculptures" because they were only finished on the front, being flat on the back, depending on the depth of the niche where they were to be placed. They were made for small domestic altarpieces—usually containing three statuettes or "dolls"—rectangular in shape, with painted wings or doors. Perhaps the best-known example is the altarpiece in the Mayer van den Bergh Museum in Antwerp.
· Size: 8,5x3,5x28,5 cms
2.400 €
