Design for Stained-Glass Roundel
by GOSSART, Jan, Pen, brush and black ink, white gouache, on blue-gray prepared paper, diameter 278 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 Aegisthus Killing Agamemnon in the Presence of Clytemnestra.