SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH, ANTWERP, CIRCA 1520 | RELIEF WITH MOURNERS FROM A CRUCIFIXION

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Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 GBP

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Property from a Distinguished Belgian Private Collection

SOUTHERN NETHERLANDISH, ANTWERP, CIRCA 1520

RELIEF WITH MOURNERS FROM A CRUCIFIXION

oak, on a later wood base

marked with the Antwerp 'hand'

relief: 36 by 41.5cm., 14⅛ by 16⅜in.

overall: 41 by 49cm., 16⅛ by 19¼in.

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Hubert Verbelen, Sint Truiden;

private collection, Belgium

Marked with the Antwerp Hand, this moving group would have been situated at the foot of the Crucifixion within a large altarpiece. While the composition of Saint John supporting the fainting Virgin alongside the two other Marys is a stock motif in retables made in early 16th-century Antwerp, the quality of carving and high level of detail in the physiognomies, draperies and Mary Magdalene's headdress distinguish the present relief as a particularly fine work from the Antwerp school.

RELATED LITERATURE

H. Nieuwdorp (ed.), Antwerpse retabels, 15de-16de eeuw, exh. cat. Antwerp, 1993, cat. nos. 4, 6, 33

A Radiocarbon Dating Measurement Report prepard by Jill Walker for RCD Lockinge (Ref. RCD-9416, sample taken February 2020) states that the wood from the sample dates between AD 1304 and 1365 or 1383 and 1414 (95% confidence interval).