GOSSART, Jan
(b. ca. 1478, Maubeuge, d. 1532, Middelburg)
GOSSART, Jan (b. ca. 1478, Maubeuge, d. 1532, Middelburg) |
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The Lamentation1520sPen and brown ink, brush and brown ink, brown wash, black chalk, 277 x 305 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin | |
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The subject of the Lamentation enjoyed a strong visual tradition in Northern art, one that Gossart certainly drew upon. He based his composition on Dürer's Lamentation from the so-called Small Passion, a series of thirty-seven woodcuts. On the verso of the sheet a sketch of the Dead Christ was recently uncovered. | |
