GOSSART, Jan
(b. ca. 1478, Maubeuge, d. 1532, Middelburg)

The Malvagna Altarpiece (centre panel, detail)

1513-15
Oil on panel
Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Palermo

The collaboration between Gossart and David also extended to the figures on the interior of the altarpiece. The putti on all three panels are certainly by Gossart. They show his early, somewhat maladroit anatomical description, for example, in the awkward foreshortening of arms.