
Measurements of the high altar of the Recollect Franciscans’ Church in Antwerp: a tall baroque altar with a forced open fronton, in the middle of which stands Our Lady, on the crescent of the moon and the serpent, with a cross and a palm in her hand, and with a garland of stars behind her head; to the left and right of her sits an evangelist who bends towards her. A big space is left vacant in the centre of the altar, for mounting a painting in; standing, to the left and right of that, are Franciscan saints, above a side door with a door panel in it. In the middle underneath the altar: a niche (for an image of a saint?). Drawn underneath the upright partition of the altar is part of the ground plan, plus a graduated scale.
Artist:
J.H. Altenrath
Dating:
unknown
Material:
Watercolour; black ink on paper
Dimensions:
614 x 383 mm
Marks :
Inscription on various parts of the right side of the altar and on the reverse.
Place:
Plantin-Moretus-Museum, Antwerp
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