UNKNOWN MASTER, Netherlandish
(active 1480-1500)

The Martyrdom of St Lucy

c. 1500
Oil on panel, 133 x 102 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

This panel and a Deposition (formerly in Berlin, lost in World War II) formed one wing of an altarpiece. The two sides were separated in the 19th century. The anonymous artist is referred to as Master of the Figdor Deposition after the Figdor Collection in Vienna which had the panel before passing to the Museum in Berlin. Naming him to the Master of the Legend of St Lucy is misleading, this name have already been assigned to an artist working in Bruges in the same period.




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