Lamentation
Lamentation

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Lamentation,

ca. 1520

Workshop of Cornelis Engebrechtsz, Netherlandish, 1460/65 - 1527
y1958-16
This panel’s small size suggests that it may have been the focal point of a domestic altarpiece, a fixture of private religious life that increased in popularity during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Netherlandish audiences particularly favored the Lamentation as a subject. John the Evangelist, the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and Mary Salome, Nicodemus, and Joseph of Arimathea exhibit an array of emotional responses to Christ’s death.
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Information

Title
Lamentation
Dates

ca. 1520

Maker
Workshop of Cornelis Engebrechtsz
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
59.8 × 46.7 cm (23 9/16 × 18 3/8 in.) frame: 83.2 × 63.8 × 8.9 cm (32 3/4 × 25 1/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the National Forge Foundation at the behest of Duane Wilder, Class of 1951
Object Number
y1958-16
Culture
Netherlandish
Type
oil paintings, paintings
Materials
oil paint, panel (wood)
Subject
crucifixion, Christ, Mary, John the Baptist

Richard Ederheimer, New York (until 1958; sold to Princeton University Art Museum).

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