Beweinungsaltar: Hl. Stephanus mit dem Stifter Stephan Vell von Wevelinghoven,

um 1530/32

Material / Technology / Carrier

Eichenholz

Dimensions of the object

113,8 x 32,9 cm

Displayed

Not on display

Department

Altdeutsche Malerei

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

WAF 117

Acquisition

1827 aus der Sammlung Boisserée

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München

Citation

Bartholomäus Bruyn d. Ä., Beweinungsaltar: Hl. Stephanus mit dem Stifter Stephan Vell von Wevelinghoven, um 1530/32, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/M0xyBgwLpl (Last updated on 24.08.2023)

The central panel shows the moment after Christ is taken down from the cross; in the background the Entombment can be seen. The donor on the left-hand wing, Stephan Vell von Wevelinghoven (d. 1532), was dean and later provost in the monastery church of St Cunibert in Cologne; his nephew, Bernhard von Huchtenbroich (d. 1521), probably the figure on the right-hand wing, a canon in Xanten. The exterior panel paintings that have since been removed are now in the museum’s depot; two static wings are in St Cunibert’s. The sharp modelling and treatment of light reveal the influence of the Netherlandish Romanist Jan van Scorel in the ‘Lamentation’ altarpiece.