Mantelpiece with relief of Paris and Oenone, Jan Baptist Xavery, 1739

Mantelpiece with relief of Paris and Oenone, Jan Baptist Xavery, 1739

relief (sculpture technique), h c.461cm × w c.252cm More details

This mantelpiece was made for the principal room of the house at 48 Rapenburg in Leiden, where Diederik, Baron van Leyden, lived. Xavery also made a marble relief for each overdoor and probably designed the decorative stucco ceiling, which surrounded a large painting by Jacob de Wit. The walls were hung with tapestries from Brussels. This created an impressive ensemble.

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Identification

Title(s)

Mantelpiece with relief of Paris and Oenone

Object type

Object number

BK-1995-3

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date: ‘J.B.XAVERY. // ANNO 1739’

Description

Schouw van Belgische rood-grijs geaderd marmer en van Carrarisch wit marmer en gedecoreerd met pastorale iconografie van Paris en Oenone op het schoorsteenstuk, geflankeerd door een zittend, vrij gebeeldhouwd musicerend kinderpaar in herdersdracht. Gesigneerd J.B.XAVERY. // ANNO 1739.

Creation

Artist

sculptor: Jan Baptist Xavery

Dating

1739

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

relief (sculpture technique)

Measurements

height c. 461 cm × width c. 252 cm × c. × height c. 19 cm × width c. 12 cm × depth c. 14 cm × height c. 18 cm × width c. 13 cm × depth c. 19 cm × height c. 39 cm × width c. 9 cm × depth c. 18 cm × height c. 33 cm × width c. 2 cm × depth c. 7 cm × height c. 39 cm × width c. 11 cm × depth c. 9 cm × height c. 18 cm × width c. 16 cm × depth c. 4 cm × height c. 33 cm × width c. 18 cm × depth c. 6 cm × height c. 25 cm × width c. 18 cm × depth c. 13 cm × height c. 220 cm × width c. 13 cm × depth c. 3 cm × height c. 183 cm × width c. 143 cm × height c. 183 cm × width c. 143 cm × height c. 112 cm × width c. 22 cm × depth c. 9 cm × height c. 40 cm × width c. 53 cm × depth c. 9 cm × height c. 152 cm × width c. 53 cm × depth c. 9 cm × height c. 260 cm × width c. 29 cm × depth c. 13 cm × height c. 94 cm × width c. 13 cm × depth c. 9 cm × height c. 12 cm × width c. 12 cm × depth c. 3 cm × height c. 15 cm × width c. 14 cm × depth c. 4 cm × height c. 32 cm × width c. 13 cm × depth c. 7 cm × height c. 220 cm × width c. 14 cm × depth c. 3 cm × height c. 220 cm × width c. 33 cm × depth c. 5 cm × height c. 220 cm × width c. 14 cm × depth c. 5 cm × height c. 47 cm × width c. 31 cm × depth c. 4 cm × height c. 39 cm × width c. 27 cm × depth c. 30 cm × height c. 95 cm × width c. 27 cm × depth c. 30 cm × height c. 140 cm × width c. 92 cm × depth c. 9 cm × height c. 106 cm × width c. 44 cm × depth c. 40 cm × height c. 27 cm × width c. 9 cm × depth c. 5 cm × height c. 27 cm × width c. 9 cm × depth c. 5 cm × height c. 27 cm × width c. 9 cm × depth c. 5 cm × height c. 15 cm × width c. 14 cm × depth c. 4 cm × height c. 36 cm × width c. 23 cm × depth c. 10 cm × height c. 36 cm × width c. 23 cm × depth c. 10 cm × height c. 14 cm × width c. 8 cm × depth c. 7 cm × height c. 30 cm × width c. 10 cm × depth c. 10 cm × height c. 30 cm × width c. 10 cm × depth c. 10 cm × height c. 20 cm × width c. 7 cm × depth c. 9 cm × height c. 52 cm × width c. 38 cm × depth c. 40 cm × height c. 52 cm × width c. 38 cm × depth c. 40 cm × height c. 150 cm × width c. 54 cm × depth c. 34 cm × height c. 195 cm × width c. 51 cm × depth c. 3 cm

Explanatory note

In 1738 gaf Diederik baron van Leyden de opdracht voor deze schouw, bestemd voor de grote zaal van zijn woonhuis aan het Rapenburg in Leiden.

Subject

What

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, with additional funding from the Prins Bernhard Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 10-Jan-1995

Copyright

Public domain

Documentation

Frits Lugt 1884-1970 : leven voor de kunst : biografie, Jan Frederik Heijbroek, p. 61, afb. p. 62
125 jaar openbaar kunstbezit : met steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt, p. 48, 164, 166, 167, 222, afb. 232
Kunst, kennis en kwaliteit : de Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland 1911-heden, afb. p. 17
Nederlandse kunst in het Rijksmuseum 1700-1800, Reinier J. Baarsen, Dirk Jan Biemond, Robert-Jan A. te Rijdt, Frits Scholten, p. 110-111, cat.nr. 40
Rococo in Nederland, Reinier J. Baarsen, Dirk Jan Biemond, Jan Daniël van Dam, , , , , Jan Rudolph de Lorm
Het Rapenburg : geschiedenis van een Leidse gracht, A.J. van Dissel, C. Willemijn Fock, Theodoor Herman Lunsingh Scheurleer, p. 556-561
Vergoldete Bronzen : die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Hans Ottomeyer, Peter Pröschel, p. 443-458
Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 134-136, afb. 6a-c
De belangrijkste aanwinsten, tentoonstellingen en andere gebeurtenissen : 18 september 1989 - 1 december 1996 = The most important acquisitions, exhibitions and other events : 18 September 1989 - 1 December 1996, Kees Schoemaker, p. 304, afb. 29
F. Scholten, 'Gebeeldhouwde schouw', Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 5 (1995), nr. 3, p. 15-18.
L.J. van der Klooster, 'Jan Baptist Xavery (1697-1742), documentatie over enkele van zijn werken', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 21 (1970), p. 99-138, spec. p. 110, noot 45.
H. Schmitz, Deutsche Möbel des Barock und Rokoko, Stuttgart, 1923, p. 183.

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