The Lamentation

15th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 29 × 21 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.189

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 4, p.228, no. 22, State i

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Princes of Waldburg Wolfegg, Wolfegg (Lugt 2542); (Arthur H. Harlow & Co., New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1939; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no.. 260, repro.

Bibliography

1908

  • Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1967

  • Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 260.

Markings

verso, stamped in black ink: Fürstlich zu Waldburg-Wolfegg'sche Kupferstichkabinett (Lugt 2542)

Watermarks

scale in a circle (close to Lehrs 44)

Wikidata ID

Q64952880

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