These portraits of a patrician family were possibly the outer panels of a triptych whose middle panel has disappeared. The coats of arms and mottos in the opened book of hours tell us who is portrayed here. The husband and wife are depicted together with their children. By the time the painting was done however, both children, who hold crosses in their folded hands, had already died. A guardian angel stands behind them. The Ghent miniaturist and panel-painter Gerard Horenbout, to whom these potraits are attributed, worked at the court of Margaret of Austria. Their extremely refined naturalism and great technical quality are reminiscent of the work of Gerard David.
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Gerard Horenbout
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Master of Jacob IV of Scotland
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| Title | Portrait of Lieven van Pottelsberghe |
| Date | ca. 1524 |
| Period | 16th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | coats of arms, heraldry at the bottom right of the Book of Hours, with motto: PLVS EST EN LVY |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1932-A |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1932 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1932-A |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/133/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
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portraits
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300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
11G
angels
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11Q511 the Bible as a book Iconclass 11Q651 crucifix ~ personal devotion Iconclass 11Q751 (public) prayer Iconclass 25G11 groups of trees Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass 31D11221 boy (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass 31D120 Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 41A17 farm (building) Iconclass 41D266 ornaments, jewels Iconclass 41D2664 ring Iconclass 41D2666 diadem, tiara Iconclass 42B74 family group, especially parents with their child(ren) Iconclass 42B741 father and child(ren), man and child(ren) (family group) Iconclass 42G2111 father (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 42G2121 son (first degree family relationships) Iconclass 48A1 person stimulating the arts; art lover, connoisseur, maecenas, patron Iconclass 48C51 painting (including book-illumination, miniature-painting) Iconclass 49L7 handwriting, written text Iconclass 49L8 inscription Iconclass 49MM32 book - MM - book open Iconclass 61B2 historical persons Iconclass 61B2(VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Lieven) historical person (VAN POTTELSBERGHE, Lieven) Iconclass |
| School / Style | Early Netherlandish AAT |
| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 75) |
| Gerard Horenbault (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] |
| 'Comment j'ai retrouvé Horenbaut', in: Annuaire des Musées des Beaux-Arts de / Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 19) |
| G. Hoorenbaut, Peintre et historien Gantois / Albert Heyse. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 1 passim, nr. 18) |
| Gerard Horenbaut peintre et miniaturiste gantois / Georges Chabot. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 2-6) |
| Gent : stad van alle tijden / Marc Boone, Gita Deneckere, Birgit Cleppe, Georges Declercq, Marie Christine Laleman. - Brussel : Mercatorfonds, 2010 ; Gent : STAM, 2010 (p. 70 (ill.)) |
| Sanders and Simon Bening and Gerard Horenbaut / Paul Wescher. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (jg. 9, nr. 3, p. 200-202) |
| Lieven van Pottelsberghe, een Gents maecenas uit het begin der XVIe eeuw / A. Van de Veegaete. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (jg. 3, afl. 1, p. 93-104) |
| Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand (exposition itinérante 'Quarante chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand' Bruxelles, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 12 février - 6 mars 1949 ; Liège, 12 mars - 3 avril 1949 ; Luxembourg, 9 avril - 1 mai 1949 ; Lille, 14 mai - 12 juin 1949) / Georges Chabot, Paul Eeckhout. - Bruxelles : Editions de la Connaissance, 1949 (p. 3, 5, nr. 7) |
| Een romantisch oord in Vlaanderen, het kasteel van Wissekerke te Bazel / Henri Nowé. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 8-9, nr. 4) |
| Gérard Horenbaut peintre et miniaturiste Gantois / Georges Chabot. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 346-354, nr. 5) |
| Lieven van Pottelsberghe / Paul Eeckhout. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 93, 104, nr. 4) |
| Geeraard Horenbaut, zijn wapen en maagschap / M. Macharis. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (jg. 19, p. 219-223) |
| Gheeraert Horenbaut / Paul Eeckhout. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 44-45) |
| Gheeraert Horenbaut / Carl Van de Velde. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 336, nr. 723) |
| Het Kasteel van Wissekerke te Bazel. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 20-37, nr. 13) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent = Museum of Fine Arts Ghent / Claudie De Guillebon, Jacques Ostier, Robert Hoozee, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Parijs : Association des Amis de "Musées 2000", 1989 (p. 13 (ill.)) |
| Over Lieven van Pottelsberghe / D. Maes. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (jg. 25, nr. 1, p. 31-34) |
| 'Gerard Horenbout', in: Jane Turner (ed), The Dictionary of Art / Bodo Brinkman. - Londen - New York : [s.n.] : [s.a.] (dl. XIV, p. 759-761) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 269 (ill. 15)) |
| Oude Meesters uit het Museum voor schone Kunsten Gent in de crypte van de Sint-Baafskathedraal. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2004 (s.p., cat. 9) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 12-13 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 15 (ill.), 108-109 (ill.)) |
| The Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic : The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland-Ohio, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1963.256 (with Faksimile Edition) / Lieve De Kesel, Stephen Fliegel. - Munich : Faksimile Verlag, 2014 (p. 139) |
| Vinderhoute : Van de prehistorie tot heden / Gerard Vanvooren, Jeroen De Reu, Pieter De Reu, Luc Neyt, Antoon Verhoeve. - Vinderhoute : Werkgroep Geschiedenis Vinderhoute, 2016 (p. 721-722) |
| Maurice Maeterlinck en zijn vriend en medewerker Karel Doudelet / Jef Crick. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
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