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| Keywords: Netherlandish - Triptych with Lamentation Over Christ with Donors and Saints - Walters 37242 - Front Left.jpg This altarpiece was probably made for the family chapel of the couple portrayed on the wings The elegantly carved central scene of the mourning over the dead Christ is set into a niche as if in a church After the central scene was carved painted and gilded probably in Brussels the unfinished triptych would have been sent to the shop of a painter The style suggests that he was influenced by Hugo van der Goes active ca 1440-1482 and probably worked in Ghent There the wings were finished with commissioned portraits The wings show the donors kneeling in prayer accompanied by their patron saints John the Baptist and Mary Magdalene The linked initials I and M are surely those of the donors' first names Jan I and J were written the same and Maria which we can guess from their patron saints but their family name is unknown The face of Maria is subtly painted while the coarse execution of the husband's face is a later alteration This is probably Maria's second husband whose profile replaces the scraped remains of an earlier portrait presumably Maria's first dead husband For another portrait of a donor with John the Baptist by Hugo van der Goes see Walters 37 296 ca 1490 Early Modern oil and gold leaf on panel wings painted and gilded wood central section open cm 76 2 82 9 22 8 accession number 37 242 25349 Jacques Seligmann Paris by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1914 Time Sanctified The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1988 Small Northern European Portraits from The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore National Gallery of Art Washington 2000 place of origin Brussels Belgium Walters Art Museum license 3D Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Art of the Netherlands Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Portraits with patron saints Kneeling in prayer in art | ||||
