The similarity of this painting to the work of the Segovian painter, the Maestro del Parral, author of the Saint Jerome in the Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid), and its relation to the work of Jorge Inglés (act. c. 1454-85), suggest the painter is from Castile. The Virgin Mary, helped by Saint John, is holding her dead son in her lap, assisted by Nicodemus and Mary Magdalene, and accom