Figures from a Deposition

ca. 1475 (Late Medieval)

39.5 cm 32.5 cm 11.5 cm

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In this group from a carved altarpiece (Walters 61.148), Mary swoons in a visual echo of the dead body of Christ - her suffering paralleling his suffering. The figures loosely derived from the great painter Rogier van der Weyden's famous altarpiece of the Deposition, of aroun...

Sculpture

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4675
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Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, December 1919, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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Gothic
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