Design for Stained-Glass Roundel
by GOSSART, Jan, Pen, brush and black ink, white gouache, on blue-gray prepared paper, diameter 272 mm
This is one of several drawings of approximately the same size, made with the same technique on blue or dark-coloured paper which are associated with the name of Gossart. All of these drawings derive their form sand size from stained-glass roundels, which were particularly popular in the Low Countries in the first half of the sixteenth century.
The subject of the present drawing is A King or Emperor at a Banquet.