Tag: Quentin Massys

01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Follower of Quentin Massys’ The Virgin and Child with a still life on a ledge, with Footnotes – #204

Nov 27, 2024

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Estimate for 10,000 – 15,000 GBP in Dec 2022 The composition for this painting is taken from Quentin Massys’s Virgin and Child outdoors dated to about 1526 and preserved in the Detroit Institute of Arts.1 In this particular version, a landscape has been substituted for a warm golden-brown background which pigment analysis has shown to…
01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Quentin Massys the Elder’s Lamentation, with Footnotes – #192

Aug 18, 2022

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This Lamentation is a very close copy of a lost prototype that Massys executed in the 1520s. Here, the artist depicts a dead Christ lying in his mother’s arms after his crucifixion on Calvary. Christ is shown naked, his sides flanked by a white drapery that cushions his head, which the Virgin is supporting with…