Design for a Holy Cross altar

Inventory number: CVH 328
Bollaert & Moortgat

Design: Holy Cross altar with stone retable in late Baroque style, above which a niche for a statue of the Madonna (in pencil) has been left blank, with wings ending on a support on which an angel is kneeling. The more austerely conceived altar tomb seems to herald the Louis XVI style.

Artist:

anonymous (Antwerp)

Dating:

1700-1799

Material:

Brown ink and pencil on paper

Dimensions:

344 x 275 mm

Place:

Plantin-Moretus-Museum, Antwerp

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