Graftombe van ridder Arnold van der Sluis van Heusden (ca. 1245-1296)
ca. 1296 - ca. 1325
Medium
Namur stone
Dimensions
45; 142; 323; 323; 133; 1800; 20; 289; 90; 54; 4561; 142
About this artwork
Commissioned by or for Arnold van der Sluis (c. 1245-1296), erected in the Norbertine Abbey of Berne, near Heusden, after his death in 1296;{J.-B. Gramaye, _Antiquitates Brabantiae. Taxandria_, Leuven/Brussels 1708, p. 7.} donated by Jonkheer W.A.C. de Jonge, owner of the Bernse Hoeven, to the museum, 1886; on loan to Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, 1976-2004
About the Artist
anonymous
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