This painting is part of the group: The Aachen Altarpiece
This painting has a reverse
On loan from National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, © Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool
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This is the right-hand panel of a triptych painted for the church of St Columba, Cologne.
Front
The front of the right hand panel shows the ‘Lamentation of Christ’, The mourning, or lamentation, over the dead Christ is generally represented as taking place immediately after his body was brought down from the Cross.
Reverse
This altarpiece was commissioned around 1505 by the highly prosperous merchant family of Hermann Rinck, Mayor of Cologne, who died in 1496. He and his wife, Gertrud von Dallem, are shown praying in the reverse of the panel. The three young men on the right looking through a screen may be the donors’ sons.
Other paintings in this group: The Aachen Altarpiece
Master of the Aachen Altarpiece
about 1490-5
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