Stained-glass with the Resurrection of Christ with devotional portraits of the Van Boshuizen-Coppier family

General information
Original location Leiden, Church of St Peter (Pieterskerk)
Current location Lost / destroyed (original)
Provenance Aernout Buchel (Buchelius) saw them between 1610 and 1620 still in their original location, as mentioned in his Inscriptiones monumentaque in templis et monasteriis Belgicis inventa, f.33r (p.75)
Artist Unknown
Date First half of the sixteenth century
Material Stained glass
Dimensions Unknown
Visual elements
Short description Resurrection of Christ. Under it prayer portraits of the Boshuizen-Coppier family, with the men on the viewer's left and the women on the right.
Coat of arms Semicircular shield - vair
Semicircular shield - per pale I: vair; II: in red a gold crowned silver demi-lion
Depicted pilgrim (on the left side, closest to the middle)
Personal information
Name Willem van Boshuizen (see remarks)
Social status / profession Burgomaster of Leiden; Bailiff of Amstelland, Waterland, Zeevang, and Woerden.
Pilgrimages
Attributes Jerusalem pilgrimage Palm
Death
Year of death 1518
Location of grave Leiden, Church of St Peter (Pieterskerk)
Additional information
General remarks The window is only known from Buchelius, who only described that there was a Resurrection to be seen, and made only a drawing of the prayer portraits (very roughly) and the coats of arms. He mentioned no information about the persons portrayed, but the coats of arms lead us to the Boshuizen-Coppier family. Moreover, there exists a memorial panel with the resurrection of Christ and prayer portraits of this family in exactly the same position. Only the number of portrayed persons differs, but this can also be attributed to Buchelius's rough sketch of the prayer portraits, which makes it plausible that he just wanted to give an impression of the glass instead of faithfully representing it. It is therefore likely that the memorial panel, since it is clearly painted later, is a copy of this window, maybe made because the window would be destroyed after the Reformation and the family wanted to preserve their ancestors. The identification of the Jerusalem pilgrim is therefore based on this memorial painting.
Literature
  • Buchelius, Inscriptiones monumentaque in templis et monasteriis Belgicis inventa (MS Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, hs. 1648), f. 33r (p.75)
For literature on the probable copy see there
Digitalised version of Buchelius on the site of Het Utrechts Archief
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