The Lamentation

1507

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

The image shows five individuals surrounding a seated man. The central figure is a muscular, bearded man with long hair, partly undressed. Beside him is a woman with long hair, stretching her arms upward. Another man is leaning forward in a comforting gesture, wearing a cloak. Two more figures are behind them, an older woman in a headscarf and a man with a turban holding a cylindrical object. In the foreground are a thorny crown and a stone with the year "1507" and a monogram. In the background is a ladder against a tree or pole, with hills and structures in the distance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 11.6 × 7.2 cm (4 9/16 × 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3514

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 14

  • Series Title

    The Engraved Passion

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Brentano-Birckenstock Collection, Vienna and Frankfurt (Lugt 345); Arthur Friederich Theodor Bohnenberger [1826-1893], Stuttgart (Lugt 68); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 2.

Bibliography

1932

  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 56.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom left, on stone: 1507 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 10 [upside down]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B.14; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 25146

Markings

none

Watermarks

Bull's Head (Meder 62 or 64)

Wikidata ID

Q18338462

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