Watercolor - D Apres Rogier Van Der Weyden - Bruxelles - Bern - Herkenbald - Tapestry -

RARE ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR ON A LINE OF INK REPRESENTING THE HISTORY OF HERKENBALD (ARCHAMBAULT) ECHEVIN OF BRUSSELS LIVING IN THE 11TH CENTURY - ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN DRAWN A MONUMENTAL PAINTING FOR THE CITY OF HERKENBALD (ARCHAMBAULT) ECHEVIN OF BRUSSELS LIVING IN THE 11TH CENTURY - ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN DRAWN A MONUMENTAL PAINTING FOR THE CITY OF HERKENBALD - 14 TOWN OF TERKENBALD - 14 TOWN OF REKAPENBALD TOWN OF REKAPENBALD - 14 TOWN OF TERKENBALD - 14 TOWN OF REKAPENBALD - 14 TOWN OF BRUSSENBALDERS THE MISSING MASTERPIECE - THE PAINTING WAS DESTROYED DURING THE TAKING OF THE CITY OF BRUSSELS BY LOUIS XIV - THE TAPESTRY IS TODAY IN THE BERN MUSEUM - THIS WATERCOLOR MADE IN THE XIXth CENTURY REPRESENTS A PART OF THIS TAPARTISH IN GOOD CONDITION - WET ON THE EDGES AND A BARELY PERCEPTIBLE 2 CM RIP IS ON THE EDGE OF THE WATERCOLOR - Herkenbald (or in French Archambault) is the name of a famous alderman of Brussels who is said to have lived in the eleventh century (circa 1020). He is cited as an example of a wise and upright judge and administrator of the city. The historical version of this legend: “One of the magistrates of Brussels, called Herkenbald, was held in bed by a fatal disease, when he heard of a rape committed by one of his nephews, whose influence was great in the city. He immediately ordered his death, the officer in charge of the execution advises the young man to hide and let the indignation of the old man calm down. Five days having passed, the culprit ventured to approach his uncle's bed, whom he hoped to find appeased, but Herkenbald grabbed him by the hair and plunged his sword into his breast, silencing family affections. before the duty of a judge of integrity. 1 According to other versions, the young man would have been guilty of having seduced several young girls. History adds, as in the painting by Roger de la Pasture, that in the face of this crime the bishop refused him the holy species, but that by a miracle they put themselves in the mouth of the dying man. This famous story is represented on a carved lamp base on the left wing of the Brussels Town Hall. The painter Roger de la Pasture also represented this story in a justice painting intended for the room of the new Town Hall, but this painting was destroyed during the bombardment of Brussels in 1695. But a tapestry preserved in Bern is perhaps a copy of this table 2. Still in 1553, Henri Aldegraver, a pupil of Albert Dürer, again took as the subject of one of his engravings: Count Archambault, who cut the throat of one of his nephews because he had violated the chastity of several women, an engraving that is usually wrongly titled: the severe Father3.