Rethel No. 1

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human figure - male - head

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 19819RET
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée du Rethélois et du Porcien
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Country Name: France
Location: Ardennes, Grand Est
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1155-1160?
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as the fragment of a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of limestone (calcaire de Meuse) ca. 1155-1160; the fragment is of a male head and was acquired by the Musée du Rethélois et du Porcien in 1969 from the Collection Lesieur, in Mesmont, Ardennes; Ghislain (ibid.) states that this fragment is by the same hand that made the heads of the fonts at Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz and Bléhen.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 598937 5485117

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)

REFERENCES

Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009