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

Design for Stained-Glass Roundel

1520s
Pen, brush and black ink, white gouache, on blue-gray prepared paper, diameter 282 mm
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

This is one of several drawings of approximately the same size, made with the same technique on blue or dark-coloured paper which are associated with the name of Gossart. All of these drawings derive their form sand size from stained-glass roundels, which were particularly popular in the Low Countries in the first half of the sixteenth century.

The subject of the present drawing is A Woman and Her Handmaid in a Bedroom with a Resting Man.




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