Deposition with thieves; Virgin in prayer supported by saint John the Evangelist; Joseph of Arimathea holding Christ's body; saint Mary Magdalene embracing the foot of the cross; Holy Women praying; sun and moon; ladder; soldiers.
Background with foliated decoration.
Museum's opinion 2011: France (Paris), c. 1400-30.
Rotterdam 2012: Southern Netherlands or France (Paris?), c. 1400-1425.
Williamson and Davies 2014: France (Paris), c. 1400-1410.
Attribution
Unknown
Polychromy - Gilding
Extensive polychromy and gilding: pink, white, black (originally silver?), gold, yellow, blue, green, red. Patterns on clothing.
Object Condition
Missing: parts of the foliated openwork background, hand of Mary Magdalene.
Provenance
Collection of Joseph Désiré de Lupus, Brussels (from 1819); Musée Lupus, Brussels (from 1822); acquired by the Museum in The Hague in 1874).
Bibliography
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1904), p. 33, no. 139.
A. Pit, Catalogus van beeldhouwkunst in het Nederlandsch Museum voor geschiedenis en kunst te Amsterdam (1915), p. 13, no. 36.
J. Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum ('s-Gravenhage, 1973), no. 781.
J. Rasmussen, 'Untersuchungen zum Halleschen Heiltum des Kardinals Albrecht von Brandenburg', in Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 28 (1977), no. 409.
Een hogere werkelijkheid, Duitse en Franse beeldhouwkunst 1200-1600 uit het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, ed. by F. Scholten and G. de Werd, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, Museum Kurhaus Kleef, 2004, no. 62b.
S. Kemperdick, F. Lammertse, The Road to Van Eyck, exhibition catalogue, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2012, no. 47.
P. Williamson and G. Davies, Medieval Ivory Carvings 1200-1550 (London, 2014), p. 457 (no. 7), in relation to no. 157.
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