Jean Hey (Master of Moulins; Netherlandish, active in France, c. 1480-c.1504)
Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin
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Jean Hey (Master of Moulins; Netherlandish, active in France, c. 1480-c.1504)c. 1500
Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Mourning Virgin
Jean Hey (Master of Moulins; Netherlandish, active in France, c. 1480-c.1504) →Renaissance16th Centurysixteenth centurypaintingeuropean painting
Date
c. 1500
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
27.5 × 19.9 cm (10 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Lacy Withers Armour Fund, purchased with funds provided by the Old Masters Society, the Rhoades Foundation, Marilynn Alsdorf, Barbara Danielson in honor of James Wood, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Madigan, and John and Mary Gedo through the Old Masters Society, through prior gift of the George F. Harding, Mr. and Mrs. Morris I. Kaplan, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester, and Max and Leola Epstein collections
Scientific imaging techniques, which can reveal information that lies below or has been removed from the surface layers of a painting, have determined that Saint John the Evangelist and the Mourning Virgin were once part of the same painting, Christ Carrying the Cross. Infrared reflectography revealed drawn strokes of Christ’s curling hair at the lower right of the Saint John panel. X-radiography shows that the top of the cross, still visible in the Saint John panel, occupied the lower left of Mourning Virgin before being scraped away and overpainted. The original work may have been repurposed to create multiple paintings of single, expressive devotional figures.
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