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| Keywords: Netherlandish - Figures from a Deposition - Walters 61148.jpg In these two groups from a carved altarpiece with Walters 61 147 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 around 1442 for the Church of Our Lady Outside the Walls in Louvain in present day Belgium Van der Weyden set out to imitate the three-dimensional modeling and shallow box-like space of contemporary sculpted wooden altarpieces The sculptural quality of his painted masterpiece made it in turn an especially effective model for sculptors ca 1475 Late Medieval paint on wood oak cm 36 5 34 10 accession number 61 148 20282 Arnold Seligmann Rey and Co New York Henry Walters Baltimore December 1919 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1919 Rogier van der Weyden Musée Communal de Bruxelles Brussels 1979 place of origin Brussels Belgium Walters Art Museum license 2D Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Renaissance sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Art of the Netherlands Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
