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| Keywords: Netherlandish - Figures from a Deposition - Walters 61147.jpg 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 around 1442 for the Church of Our Lady Outside the Walls in Louvain in present day Belgium This piece was carved at the same time as its companion piece focused on the dead body of Christ Walters 61 148 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 32 5 39 5 11 5 accession number 61 147 4675 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 Salute to Belgium place of origin Brussels Belgium Walters Art Museum license Salute to Belgium Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Renaissance sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Art of the Netherlands Fainting Virgin Mary | ||||
