Pietà with Sorrowing Angels, Workshop of Mattheus van Beveren, 17th century


Pietà with Sorrowing Angels, 17th century, Flemish, Boxwood; base: wood, ebony, tortoiseshell and ivory or bone, With base, 18 x 12-1/2 x 6-1/2 in. ( x x cm), Sculpture-Miniature, Workshop of Mattheus van Beveren (ca. 1630–1690), Van Beveren also worked in ivory 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


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