A mysterious drawing.
In 1971 W.A. Hofman bought a drawing depicting the ‘Crucifixion of Christ’ at a house-clearance auction in Slochteren for ten guilders. The image reminded him of a painting by Jan van Eyck and he believed the drawing must date from the same period. It remained almost completely unknown until 2012, when it was included in the exhibition‘The Road to Van Eyck’. Following extensive research, Hofman was vindicated: it is indeed an exceptionally important work from the fifteenth century. But precisely who made it and when is still the subject of intense discussion among art historians. It is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of early Dutch drawing in recent decades.
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