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The Last Rites
Also titled Het laatste sacrament
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Beverwijk, ca. –ca.)
c. 1545
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 380 mm x width 492 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Here a priest is performing the last rites for a dying man. While most of the women are weeping, the men look on in solemn resignation. Typical of Vermeyen’s work is the crowded, claustrophobic composition with the figures pressed into a confined space. The faces of the female mourners strongly recall those of the women in The Lamentation, also on view here.
