The Swoon of the Virgin, from a Calvary, from the Soest Altarpiece, The group consists of the silent Maria, supported by Johannes behind her (both without head) and a woman, who with one hand dries her tears with a cloth, while she holds the other hand in front of her. Between them in the back figure of Mary Magdalene, of whom some hair strands are still present. Mary in a girdled robe has a neckerchief and a cloak, which is turned over the knees to the left, John a bar and a cloak closed for the chest, part of which is folded back over the left shoulder, so that the prayer line and a sheath or sheath are visible on the side. The weeping woman wears a long robe, a child's daughter and a cloak hanging from her head. In the foreground to the right a skull, on the mountain behind John remains of a ruined ruin, bystanders at the foot of the cross, among whom Mary, Mary Magdalene and John the Evangelist, Mary may be shown swooning, Master of the Soest Altarpiece, Utrecht, c. 1475 - c. 1500, oak (wood), gilding, h 56.5 cm × w 37 cm × d 18.5 cm
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