Lamentation for Christ, c. 1512

Not on View

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

diameter: 5.7 cm (2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 3

Accession Number

1943.3.899

Artists / Makers

Hans Baldung Grien (artist) German, 1484/1485 - 1545

Image Use

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Inscription

in image, in plate, on trunk at upper right: HGB [artist's monogram, in reverse]

Provenance

Schloss 'E'; (sale 41, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, May 1929, no. 36); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1981: Hans Baldung Grien: Prints & Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1981, no. 35, repro.

2019: Hans Baldung Grien, Large State Exhibition of Baden-Wurttemberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2019 - 2020, no. 142.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger