Friday, October 8, 2021

Colijn de Coter (Tradition in Brussels)

Colijn de Coter
Christ the Mediator with Philip the Fair
ca. 1500
oil on panel (diptych)
Musée du Louvre

Colijn de Coter
Virgin Mediator with Jeanne La Folle
ca. 1500
oil on panel (diptych)
Musée du Louvre

Colijn de Coter
Last Judgment
Archangel Michael weighing Souls

ca. 1495-1505
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Colijn de Coter
Last Judgment
St Peter welcoming the Blessed

ca. 1495-1505
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Colijn de Coter
The Damned
ca. 1505
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

Colijn de Coter
Pruszcz Polyptych
The Last Supper
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Museum, Warsaw

Colijn de Coter
Pruszcz Polyptych
Taking of Christ
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Museum, Warsaw

Colijn de Coter
Pruszcz Polyptych
Ascension of Christ
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Museum, Warsaw

Colijn de Coter
Pruszcz Polyptych
Descent of the Holy Spirit
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Museum, Warsaw

Colijn de Coter
Descent from the Cross
ca. 1495-1505
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao

workshop of Colijn de Coter
The Entombment
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

workshop of Colijn de Coter
The Entombment (detail)
ca. 1510
oil on panel
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

Colijn de Coter
The Lamentation
ca. 1510-15
oil on panel
(altarpiece fragment)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Colijn de Coter
The Holy Trinity
ca. 1510-15
oil on panel
Musée du Louvre

Colijn de Coter
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1500-1505
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

Colijn de Coter
Virgin and Child crowned by Angels
ca. 1490-95
oil on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

"Colijn de Coter directed a workshop in Brussels well into the 16th century, but his style and subjects reflect the traditions of the great 15th-century Netherlandish painters Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, and Rogier van der Weyden.  [In The Virgin and Child Crowned by Angels, directly above] the well-appointed, bourgeois interior underscores Christ's humanity, even as angels crown the Virgin as the Queen of Heaven.  Like his predecessors, de Coter used details of the setting to emphasize both the human and divine aspects of Christ's nature.  Thus, the lion carved on the arm of Mary's chair alludes to the biblical throne of Solomon, and the prayer inscribed on the hem of her cloak hails her as "mother of the king of angels."  The somewhat claustrophobic treatment of space reflects de Coter's own style."  

– curator's notes from the Art Institute of Chicago