17th-Century Follower of Hugo van der Goes

The Lamentation with Mary Magdalene, Saint John the Evangelist and donors

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17th-Century Follower of Hugo van der Goes
The Lamentation with Mary Magdalene, Saint John the Evangelist and donors
oil and gold on panel, stamped on the reverse with the coat-of-arms of the city of Antwerp and the panel maker's mark 'F/VT' of Franchoys van Thienen
29 x 40 7/8 in. (73.6 x 103.8 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The prototype by Hugo van der Goes for this immensely successful composition is lost, although an autograph fragment on canvas is in Oxford's Christ Church. Highly faithful early copies are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (see M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, IV, Hugo van der Goes, ed. N. Veronee-Verhaegen, Leyden, 1969, pl. 37). Franchoys van Thienen became a master in the Guild of St. Luke in 1602, and had apprentices in 1610 and 1617.

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