Retable with the Lamentation, about 1480-1500.
Southern Netherlandish (Brussels). Gilt and polychromed oak, 101.6 cm x 139.7 cm x 24.1 cm, corpus gilt and polychromed, The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp.
In celebration of a three-year loan from the Phoebus Foundation in Antwerp, curator Jacquelyn N. Coutré will discuss a painted and carved house altar produced in Brussels in the late 15th century. She will explore its unusual iconography, offer theories about its evolving function, and share tales of its storied history.
About the Speaker
Jacquelyn N. Coutré is the Eleanor Wood Prince Curator in Painting and Sculpture of Europe at the Art Institute of Chicago. Since her arrival in 2019, she has overseen the 2021 reinstallation of the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish galleries, acquired paintings by Edwaert Collier and Maria van Oosterwijck, and curated Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape (2023). She specializes in early modern Northern European art, with an emphasis on Rembrandt’s circle, artistic competition and exchange, and collecting histories.
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