The Lamentation

Details

Master of the Martyrdom of Saint John (active circa 1525)
The Lamentation
oil on panel, arched top
53.5 x 38.1 cm

Provenance

Anon.sale, Rosen Berlin, 18 november 1957, lot 19, with ill. p.4.

Literature

D.C. Ewing, The Paintings and Drawings of Jan de Beer, unpublished dissertation, 1978, p.308, no.27, p.438, fig.74, as by a close associate of Jan de Beer.

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Sale room notice

Please note the following provenance and literature:

Provenance:
Anon.sale, Rosen Berlin, 18 november 1957, lot 19, with ill. p.4.

Literature:
D.C. Ewing, The Paintings and Drawings of Jan de Beer, unpublished dissertation, 1978, p.308, no.27, p.438, fig.74, as by a close associate of Jan de Beer.

Lot Essay

The attribution has been kindly suggested by Dr Max Martens of the University of Groningen, on the basis of a photograph (oral information).
He compares it with the pendant pictures of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist and the Martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist, in the Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts, Antwerp and in the Louvre (M.J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting,no.59/60, plates 62/3), after which this so far anonymous Antwerp master received his name.
His oeuvre is only small. Characteristic of the master is the concentration on costume and drapery and the contrast in scale between foreground and background figures.
This lot has been requested as a loan to the forthcoming exhibition on Antwerp Mannerism, to take place at the Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts, Antwerp, in 2002.

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