Pietà with Sorrowing Angels

Mattheus van Beveren

17th century · Boxwood; base: wood, ebony, tortoiseshell and ivory or bone · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Van Beveren also worked in ivory (see 1980.220) and carved larger wood and marble compositions for wealthy religious orders in Antwerp. The monumentality of this Lamentation derives from the sculptor's full-scale version of 1668, made for the altar of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows in Dendermonde (now Belgium). A cutout on the back of the base indicates that a cross once stood behind the group.

Artist

Mattheus van Beveren

Date

17th century

Medium

Boxwood; base: wood, ebony, tortoiseshell and ivory or bone

Culture

Flemish

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964