Carved oak prophet. Standing with his left... - Lot 49 - Pierre Bergé & Associés

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Carved oak prophet. Standing with his left... - Lot 49 - Pierre Bergé & Associés
Carved oak prophet. Standing with his left leg forward, he has a phylactery in his right hand; wearing a cap with a cut-out edge of scrolls, he is dressed in a long robe with ample sleeves, split at the side, and an open mantle; a wide belt with diamond-shaped cabochons to which is attached a sling; tubular and vertical folds of the robe, broken and geometrically shaped sleeves. Brabant, Jan I Borman, end of the 15th century Height: 32 cm (lacks at the edge of the hat) Work consulted: Exposition Louvain 2019/2020, Borman, A family of Northern Renaissance Sculptors, M - Museum, M. Debaene curator, cat. 46 and 121, pp 196-197, 226. A mortise on the back indicates that this beautiful statuette must have been fixed to an upright of an altarpiece, piece of furniture or woodwork. It is reminiscent of two others, also representing prophets, kept in the collections of the Musée de Cluny and of very similar dimensions that are now attributed to Jan I Borman (inv. Cl.15375 and 15376, fig.a). The folds of the right sleeve, deep, broken and thick, are also very comparable to those formed by the mantle on the Saint John of the Louvain Museum, around 1500, by the hand of Jan I or II Borman (inv. C/32, fig. b).
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