Lamentation for Christ

c. 1512

Hans Baldung Grien

Artist, German, 1484/1485 - 1545

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1943.3.899

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 3

Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

1931

  • Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 19.

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.

  • Hans Baldung Grien, Large State Exhibition of Baden-Wurttemberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

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

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64957156

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