The Lamentation

c. 1480/1490

Master BM

Artist, German, active c. 1480/1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 22.5 × 16 cm (8 7/8 × 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.5.480

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 6, p.075, no. 3, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

D. G. de Arozarena, Paris (Lugt 109); Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein-Oels, Silésie (Lugt 2669); (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1949; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 20.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 119, 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. 119.

Watermarks

Gothic P with flower

Wikidata ID

Q65081148

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