The Lamentation
c. 1450
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in brown lake, gray, rose, yellow, green, and olive
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Credit Line
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Accession
1943.3.493
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 506, State m
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Barfusserkloster, Freiburg. (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); purchased 2 May 1940 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1965
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 76, repro.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 2.
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. 76.
Wikidata ID
Q64952928