Lamentation
c. 1505-1507
Artist, Milanese, active 1495 - 1524


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 18
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 168.6 x 152 cm (66 3/8 x 59 13/16 in.)
framed: 201.3 x 184.8 x 11.4 cm (79 1/4 x 72 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1961.9.40
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Baron Kinnaird, Rossie Priory, Inchture, Perthshire, Scotland. Probably purchased 1935 in England by Longhi; sold that same year to (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence);[1] sold 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] According to Kress records in NGA curatorial files.
[2] On 7 June 1954 the Kress Foundation made an offer to Contini Bonacossi for sixteen paintings, including the NGA painting which was listed as Altarpiece Deposition by Solario. In a draft of one of the documents prepared for the Count's signature in connection with the offer, this painting is described as one "which came from my personal collection in Florence." The Count accepted the offer on 30 June 1954; the final payment for the purchase was ultimately made in early 1957, after the Count's death in 1955. (See copies of correspondence in NGA curatorial files and The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1211.)
Associated Names
Bibliography
1956
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 170, no. 67, repro., as Pietà.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 175, repro., as Pietà.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 124, as Pietà.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 111, repro., as Pietà.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 139, fig. 332.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:411.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 330, repro., as Pietà.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:435-436; 2:pl. 315, as Pietà.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 100, no. 68, color repro., as Pietà.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 378, repro., as Pietà.
1988
Wheeler, Marion, ed. His Face: Images of Christ in Art: Selections from the King James Version of the Bible. New York, 1988: 127, no. 98, color repro.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 98, no. 72, color repro.
2005
Sander, Jochen. Hans Holbein D.J. Tafelmaler in Basel 1515-1532. Munich, 2005: 223, nt. 146.
2022
Brown, David Alan. Overshadowed--Leonardo da Vinci and Bernardino Luini. Milan, 2022: 27-28, color fig. 14, 65 note 40.
Inscriptions
lower right on cartello in nearly effaced letters: ANDREAS...
Wikidata ID
Q20174960