Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
c. 1500
Medium
boxwood or possibly pear
Credit Line
Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom
Object Number
S279
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall (height): 438mm (43.8 cm)
Description
Triptych interior: corpus: Adoration of the Magi; Left wing: Nativity with Annunciation to the Shepherds in the background; Right wing: Presentation, Flight into Egypt, Massacre of the Innocents;
Exterior: corpus: Abraham and the Angels; left wing: drunkenness of Noah, building the ark; Right wing: Jacob`s dream
Column: Temptation, Expulsion, Adam Digging, Eve Spinning, Cain and Abel
Base: Creation of the animals, Creation of Adam, Creation of Eve
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
CRESCITE ET MVLTIPLICAM [on base below creation of animals]
FACIA[MVS] HO[M]I[N]E[M] AD [IMA]GINE[M] [on base below creation of Adam]
PER H[OMO] ADHEREB[IT] VXOR[I] SV[AE] [on base below creation of Eve]
noe cum plantatasset vine[a]m bibens de vino in[e]briatus [on outside of right shutter - Genesis 9:20-21]
tres vidit et vnvm adoravit [on the outside back]
in bacvlo meo t[r]ansivi iordanem et cum tribus turmis refert [on outside of left shutter]
ET TV BETHLE[H]E[M] IVDA / NICLAES [inside left shutter - Matthew 2:6]
VIDEANTES STELLAM MAGI [centre]
TVAM IPSIVS A[N]I[M]AM PETRI [inside right shutter]
[source: Mann 1981]
NICLAES
[source: Wallace Collection site]
CRESCITE ET MVLTIPLICAM [on base below creation of animals]
FACIA[MVS] HO[M]I[N]E[M] AD [IMA]GINE[M] [on base below creation of Adam]
PER H[OMO] ADHEREB[IT] VXOR[I] SV[AE] [on base below creation of Eve]
noe cum plantatasset vine[a]m bibens de vino in[e]briatus [on outside of right shutter - Genesis 9:20-21]
tres vidit et vnvm adoravit [on the outside back]
in bacvlo meo t[r]ansivi iordanem et cum tribus turmis refert [on outside of left shutter]
ET TV BETHLE[H]E[M] IVDA / NICLAES [inside left shutter - Matthew 2:6]
VIDEANTES STELLAM MAGI [centre]
TVAM IPSIVS A[N]I[M]AM PETRI [inside right shutter]
[source: Mann 1981]
NICLAES
[source: Wallace Collection site]
Published References
James Gow Mann, Wallace Collection Catalogues: Sculpture (London: The Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1931 with supplement 1981, pp 103-105)
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 3
Provenance
Provenance
Charles Mannheim; bought by Sir Richard Wallace in Paris, October 5, 1871
Previous Owner(s)
M. Charles Mannheim
Sir Richard Wallace