DAVID, Gerard
(b. ca. 1460, Oudewater, d. 1523, Bruges)

Pilate's Dispute with the High Priest; The Holy Women and St John at Golgotha

1480-85
Oil on panel, 45 x 43 cm (each)
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

Gerard David was born in Holland, but was enrolled as a Free Master in Bruges, where he died in 1523. The panels depicting Pilate's Dispute with the High Priest, and The Holy Women and Saint John at Golgotha, which originally formed a triptych together with Christ Nailed to the Cross (National Gallery, London) date from the period 1480-85.




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