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

Scenes from the Life of St Giles

1520s
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, 299 x 422 mm
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

The composition represents three scenes from the life of St Giles, a seventh-century hermit who lived in a forest in Provence and sustained himself by drinking the milk of a doe, his sole companion. The saint's life is told in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend.

The attribution to Gossart is not universally accepted.