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with Charles V. Although carvers working in the commercial cities of Brabant have historically attracted greater attention, the Elsloo group serves as a reminder that artistic production and patronage was much more widely dif- fused in the early sixteenth century. The Elsloo production may have been essentially local, but it was evidently neither provincial nor parochial. Notes 1 W illiamson 2002: 138-139, no. 44. 2 B urk 2005; Mechelen 2005: 310-314. 3 W illiamson 2010. 4 I dem 2002: 138. 5 B ruges 2006: 153. 6 B rown and Small 2007: 73. The classical version of the ‘Labour’ was evidently much elaborated. 7 H ollstein n.d.: 140. 8 H all 1974: 148; Othniel 1987: n. 23. 9 S ee for example the carved wooden version decorating the base of the 1385 organ loft in Strasbourg Cathedral. 10 Reproduction available at the British Museum collection database. 11 O rgel 1984. 12 N oordzij 2009: 74, 125. 13 M echelen 2005: 311, no. 119. 14 W oods 2007: 150-153, 502-506; ­ Wainwright 1989: 277-278. 15 W illiamson 2002: 136-137, no. 43. For Pugin and late-Gothic woodcarving, see Woods 2007: 153-163. 16 W edgwood 1985: diaries. 17 V anden Bemden 2008; Vanden Bemden, Kerr and Opsomer 1986. 18 F or the sale see Victorian Society Report 1963-1964: 5-7 and 1968-1969: 25-26. 19 G irouard 1958. 20 S int-Truiden 1990: cat. no. 58. 21 E gg 1988: 32-33. 22 B ruges 1969: 157-158, no. 87. 23 L owden and Cherry 2008: 110-111. 24 V an Os et al. 2000: 52-53, no. 3; the e ffigy is now in Antwerp Cathedral; of the original twenty-four bronze dynastic figures the ten that survive are now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. 25 O n these tombs, see Campbell 1988. 26 V an Baerland 1612. 27 P reston, Lancashire Record Office DDSc 78/4; some of the items are listed in Tracy 2001: appendix 3, but not the statue of Rudolph. 28 E gg 1988: 34-35. 29 P inchart 1860: 246. 30 S tuttgart 1993: 407-413. The authors of the catalogue favour an identification of the wooden statue with Schweikart’s adopted son, Stefan, who died as a child, but this seems to me less likely. My thanks to Sophie Guillot de Suduiraut for bringing this example to my attention. 31 H enne and Wauters 1975: 370-374; Schayes 1857: 246-253. 32 D elmarcel 1999: 80-81. 33 S chayes 1857: 249. 34 I bid.: 252. 35 H enne and Wauters 1975: 372. 36 N ijsten 2004: 324, 283. 37 S ee biographical entries in De Smedt 2 000; Cools 2001: 149-308. See also Houart and Benoît-Jeannin 2006; Dek 1958. 38 W olters 1850: 47-62. 39 W oods 2007: 195. 40 I bid.: 194. 41 M ojon 1960: 406-412. 42 F or the best reproduction and explana- t ion, see Lacarra Ducay 2002: 124. Bibliography Brown and Small 2007 Brown, A. and G. Small, Court and Civic Society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420-1530 , Manchester, 2007. Bruges 1969 Anonieme Vlaamse Primitieven . Zuid­ nederlandse meesters met noodnamen van de 15 de tot het begin van de 16de eeuw ( exh. cat. Bruges, Groeningemuseum), Bruges, 1969. Bruges 2006 Koldeweij, J., Foi et bonne fortune. Parure et dévotion en Flandre médiévale ( exh. cat. Bruges, Bruggemuseum-­ Gruuthuse), Arnhem, 2006. Burk 2005 Burk, J.L., ‘Conrat Meit, Court Sculptor to Margaret of Austria’, Women of Distinction. Margaret of York, Margaret of Austria ( exh. cat. Mechelen, Lamot TM ), ed. D. Eichberger, Leuven, 2005: 277-286. Campbell 1988 Campbell, L., ‘The Tomb of Joanna, Duchess of Brabant’, Renaissance Studies , 2/2 (1988): 163-172. Cools 2001 Cools, H., Mannen met macht. Edel­- lieden en de Moderne Staat in de