Pentecost

Evidently a design for the central panel of a triptych, this drawing may be dated circa 1540; the architecture echoes Italian models, which the artist could have seen on a presumed journey to Italy mentioned by Karel van Mander as probably having taken place before 1525. The handling, figures and architecture is closely comparable to a drawing from Coecke's workshop, Sarah asking Abraham to banish Hagar and Ishmael, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, F. Stampfle, Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries ...., New York Princeton New Jersey, 1991, no. 52, illustrated.