Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 90-91.(Budapest, 1999)

NYERGES, ÉVA: A New Acquisition: The Christ on the Cross by the Master of Los Balbases

cannot exclude the possibility that the Budapest panel had also belonged to the same. At the same time, the authorship of the Master of Los Balbases is made slightly problematic for us by the fact that the draperies in the Budapest panel are painted much more softly and do not have the same sharp folds. The more high-keyed handling of the drapery characteristic of the Master is evoked in our painting only by the scroll bearing the legend, Christ's loincloth and St. John's robe. Probably the Master of Los Balbases and his workshop were responsible for this work, too. The elegant but surehanded lines of the underdrawing, which in its perfection approaches the quality of an autonomous drawing suggests the hand of the Master of Los Balbases. The high quality of this work places it alongside the Pedro Sanchez painting of the Budapest collection, and it is one of the most interesting works of the Flemish-trained late 15th-century Castilian school. It contains several iconographie rarities and points of interest, such as the group of receding soldiers, and the figure of the youth holding the tree.

20 ÉVA NYERGES Translated by John Batki 20 Silva Maroto, ibid.1990, 2, pp. 566-67, Fig. 177. In the painting of The Flight to Egypt, thought to be by the Master of Las Balbases and his workshop, in the background on the left we see the pursuing soldiers, as well as a detail of the miracle of the sheaf of wheat from the Apocrypha.