Corpus Christi, signed on the back of the loin cloth by Marc de Vos (1650-1717). Flanders, circa 1700

Ivory. Height : 43.00 cm (Height : 16.93 in.) - Price on application

Due to destruction and regime change not much is left of the oeuvre of Marc de Vos.
He was made master in the Quatre Couronnés, the Brussels stonemasons' guild, in 1675.
In the early 1690s he made sculptures for the Maison de la Louve, the House of the she-wolf, on the Grand Place in Brussels. It only lasted for a few years, as the 1695 bombardment by the hostile French troops, destroyed much of the Grand Place. A terracotta sketch of a female allegory signed by Marc de Vos, formerly in the Van Herck Collection, now in the KMSK in Antwerp, is the only sculpture left from this commission. After the bombardment Marc de Vos worked on the decoration of the rebuilt Maison des Brasseurs, the Brewers' House. His most famous work is a pulpit, currently in the Notre Dame du Sablon in Brussels. Marc de Vos also made an equestrian statue of Elector of Bavaria and Governor of the Spanish Netherlands Maximilian II Emmanuel, placed on top of the Brewers House. This statue was replaced in 1752 by a statue of Charles de Lorraine, the Governor of the Spanish Netherlands at that time.

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