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

The Crowning with Thorns

1520s
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, 274 x 252 mm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

This is the only drawing by Gossart of this subject; related subjects are also depicted in two of his paintings and an etching. The peculiar shape of the drawing, with its rounded upper half flanked by two unequal corners, relates to a specific kind of portable polyptych.