# The Last Rites

- By: Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Beverwijk, ca. –ca.)
- Date: c. 1545
- Medium: paper
- Classification: print
- Dimensions: height 380 mm x width 492 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-P-1887-A-11962--6d9937ba31a3fe929f0a04a86d911d08)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/47b80dd245b14e1cbb5bb8b3c5719765.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.