The Lamentation

c. 1480/1490

German 15th Century

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This is a print of a group of people with a cross in the background. Four people kneel around a central man who is lying on the ground. All four of the people are adorned with halos. The central man is nude except for a light-yellow cloth tied around his waist. He has long brown hair and a brown beard and is laying on a tan cloth. There are circular holes in his feet and hands. The four kneeling people wear long robes, two of which are red and two are blue. Underneath the robes are light tan and yellow garments. The three people on the right side wear white cloths that cover their hair, while the leftmost person, who cradles the head of the reclining man, has long, curling, blonde hair. The ground beneath the people is green, while the sky is white with blue streaks. The cross in the top right corner of the print is yellow.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in dark brown, hand-colored in red-lake, blue, green, yellow, tan, gold, and orange

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.495

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 510


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

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Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 79, repro.

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965: no. 79.

Wikidata ID

Q64952930

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