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Maubeuge
Nord
Nord - Pas-de-Calais

Place Mabuse

Jan Gossaert dit Mabuse

Maubeuge 1465 - Antwerpen 1532
Flemish painter
(Wikipedia)

Albert Patrisse
Susse Frères (Paris)
1934/??

Description

Bronze bust.
In 1897 a bust of Mabuse by Léon Fagel was placed on the place Verte, this was in 1934 replaced by a bust by Patrisse, which was destroyed during World War II. The present bust is a replacement.

Inscription(s)

JEAN MABUSE
Peintre Maubeugois
1465-1533

Jean Gossart
dit
Mabuse

né a Maubeuge
Peintre de l'Ecole Flamande

Signed: Alb. Patrisse / sculpt.
cire perdue / Susse F^res Fond^rs Paris

Sculptor

Albert Patrisse (Fresne-sur-l'Escaut 1892 - Dunkerque 1964), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

L'Avesnois, Villes et villages de l'Avesnois.
Wikipedia, Liste des œuvres d'art du Nord

Locatie (N 50°16'36" - E 3°58'24") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frnp017; Photograph: 26 May 2011
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