Frick Pietà

Frick

#3

Frick #3

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Pietà, School of Provence

Pietà, Circle of Konrad Witz

• Helen Clay Frick loaned this painting in the summer of 1975. She later donated it to the Frick Collection in 1981.

Hollandaise

• Provence, Savoy, and Burgundy all suggested as domiciles for the artists of the two Pieta. In addition to proximity, matrimonial, military, and commercial alliances linked these centers and further extended their horizons beyond the immediate neighborhood. 

• Other regions also were easily accessible. The Rhine valley offered an avenue from the Low Countries and Cologne to Basel. It is not surprising that many of these itinerants, however gifted, are difficult to pin down—to identify, document, or even define in clearcut national terms.

• More southern temperament is at work in the Pieta with Donor - gesso ground suggests training in Italy or south of France.

  • The thick ground, similar to an Italian gesso, apparently is composed of plaster of Paris and parchment glue