Rijksmuseum
The Last Rites
1545
A priest is administering the sacrament of the dying. Most of the women are weeping, the men look on solemnly in quiet resignation. Typical of Vermeyen’s work is the overcrowded, claustrophobic composition: the figures jostle one another in the small space. The women’s grieving faces strongly recall those of the women in Vermeyen’s drawing of the Lamentation.
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