Catalogue

THE PASSION ALTARPIECE

OBSERVATIONS 

Originally attributed by Robert Didier and María Moreno to a workshop associated to a manufacturing source in Brussels, it was Sophie Guillot de Suduiraut, Curator of the Louvre Museum, who finally established the more detailed similarities with a series of works coming from the same workshop located in a somewhat more generic region: the Duchy of Brabant. These other works are: the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Karlsruhe, the Descent From the Cross in Vielsalm, the figures of a Holy Virgin and a Nativity angel belonging to the Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, and two reliefs of the Swooning of Mary, Mother of God in private collections.

Other works considered as having a great deal in common with this one are: the altarpiece of the Passion in the church of St. Michael in Schwäbisch Hall and a Descent From the Cross belonging to the French church of Neuilly-l’Hôpital.