Monday 25 May 2015

Copy of Van der Weyden

At Alcala, in Spain, they sell a small (30 by 41) "16th century Hispano-Flemish School" Lamentation, estimated at 1,500 Euro. UPDATE: sold for 1,700 Euro.

It is again evidence of the huge influence the Early Netherlandish painters (especially Van Eyck and Van der Weyden) had on early painting in Spain; in this case, it is a crude adaptation of Van der Weyden's "Lamentation" (multiple copies, the above is from the Brussels Museum). I don't know any other examples where the grail was added to the image though.

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