Nijmegen / Nimwèège

A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 19 July 2022) provided the information below: The journal “Nieuwe Haarlemsche Courant, 26th of March 1914, page 7” reports the acquisition by the Museum van Stolk of fragments of a Romanesque baptismal font : with figures and arcs; it describes it as the fragment of an early-Romanesque, made of limestone and found among earlier remains of the Roman settlement in Nijmegen. The fragment of a baptismal font of unknown provenance is noted in the Catalogue des sculptures, tableaux, tapis etc., formant la collection d’objects d’art du Musee van Stolk (La Haye: M. Nijhoff, 1912). The journal “Nieuwe Haarlemsche Courant, 26th of March 1914, page 7” reports the acquisition by the Museum van Stolk of fragments of a Romanesque baptismal font : with figures and arcs; it describes it as the fragment of an early-Romanesque, made of limestone and found among earlier remains of the Roman settlement in Nijmegen. Jan Bertram van Stolk founded the Museum Van Stolk in 1902, located in Scheveningen and later in Haarlem; it held an important collection of religious art that was auctioned after his death and the museum's closure in 1928. A further communication from Pol Herman (e-mail of 21 July 2022) added: "I found the catalogue of the auction of 8 and 9 May 1912 at Amsterdam of the “van Stolk” collection: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/muller1928_05_08/0035/image,info [accessed 21 July 2022] but the font fragment(s) are not mentioned separately, maybe they are part of lot nos. 164-315, a collection of 150 pieces dated 12th-15thC, to be sold individually starting on the afternoon of the second day of the auction, according to the printed instructions". [NB: we have on information of the present whereabouts of the fragment].