Scenes from the Life of St Giles
by GOSSART, Jan, Pen and brown ink over black chalk, 299 x 422 mm
The composition represents three scenes from the life of St Giles, a seventh-century hermit who lived in a forest in Provence and sustained himself by drinking the milk of a doe, his sole companion. The saint’s life is told in Jacobus de Voragine’s Golden Legend.
The attribution to Gossart is not universally accepted.