Germany & Low Countries

15th century German and Low Countries drawings

 

Rogier van der Weyden (school of; 1399/1400-64),Triptych of St Elias, drawing, pencil, pen-&-ink, wash, 25 x 38.5 cm., Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques 

‘…the rendering of the shadows and the fall of certain garments lead one to believe that this is a model for a sculpted altarpiece, such as the one in the church of St Amand in Roisin. Although the drawing in the Louvre was not created for Roisin, the relationship between the two works attests to the knowledge of this sheet among the sculptors of Hainaut in the first half of the 15th century’.

Master of the Legend of St Barbara (fl.1470-1500), Scenes of the martyrdom of St Barbara, c.1480, pen-&-ink, black chalk, 19.8 x 14.3 cm., Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques 

See ‘…the same subject, Scenes from the Legend of Saint Barbara, from the Pierpont Morgan Library (New York, inv III, 127)’, below.

Master of the Legend of St Barbara (fl.1470-1500), St Barbara’s imprisonment in the tower & her baptism, pen-&-ink, black chalk, 28.7 x 12.7 cm., The Morgan Library & Museum