Colijn de Coter - The Lamentation of Christ [c.1510-15]

Colijn de Coter - The Lamentation of Christ [c.1510-15], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Colijn de Coter (c.1440-45 - c.1522-32) was an early Netherlandish painter who produced mainly altarpieces. De Coter was born around 1440-1445. This can be deduced from a 1479 document in the Brussels archives, naming him as a husband, painter and tenant of a house; in other words, he must have already reached adulthood in that year. The archives of the Brussels Brotherhood of Saint Eloy list three payments to Colijn de Coter in 1509-1511 for painting a church tabernacle. From the archives of this brotherhood, we can also deduce that the painter's death probably fell somewhere in the period 1522-1532.

[Oil on panel, 35.5 x 42.9 cm]