ANVERSOISE school circa 1620, entourage of Pierre Paul RUBENS La Déploration sur le corps du Christ Oak panel, parquet finish 26.5 x 21.5 cm (Old restorations) Provenance : Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Maître Ader), March 21, 1956, no. 35 (Anton van Dyck. Sold for 310,000 fr). Exhibition: Cent tableaux d'art religieux, Paris, galerie Charpentier in 1953, no. 92, reproduced (Anton Van Dyck, sketch "a first idea of the altar painting Van Dyck painted in 1627 or 1628, for the Beguinage of Antwerp"). Our painting is similar to Van Dyck's Lamentation (Madrid, Prado Museum). While the figures of St. John the Apostle carrying Christ's head and the two Marys are taken from Rubens' Lamentation (Getty). This double influence in our painting is typical of the career of Van Dyck, who was Rubens' main collaborator between 1618 and 1620.