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

The Beheading of St John the Baptist

1510-15
Pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, on gray-brown prepared paper, diameter 245 mm
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

There are several round drawings on tinted paper associated with Gossart, but this is the only one signed by the artist (at upper right). It can be related to a woodcut of Dürer, which Gossart emulated without slavishly imitating it. Because of its round shape, the drawing has been generally assumed to be a design for a stained-glass roundel.