The Last Rites

The Last Rites

RP-P-1887-A-11962

collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Here a priest is performing the last rites for a dying man. While most of the women are weeping, the men look on in solemn resignation. Typical of Vermeyen’s work is the crowded, claustrophobic composition with the figures pressed into a confined space. The faces of the female mourners strongly recall those of the women in The Lamentation, also on view here.

Hollstein Dutch 2

print maker: Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen

c. 1545

ets

height 380 mm x width 492 mm

purchase 1887

Public domain

• Hollstein Dutch 2
• I. Veldman, 'Book review on: H. J. Horn, "Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, painter of Charles V and his Conquest of Tunis: paintings, etchings, drawings, cartoons and tapestries", 2 vols., Doornspijk 1989', Simiolus 21, nr. 1/2 (1992), p. 101, fig. 1

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