print
- Museum number
- E,7.203
- Description
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Lamentation over Christ; Christ's body foreshortened, in the foreground, the Virgin bending over his head, with St John and Mary Magdalene behind her, three nails and an ointment jar in the foreground.
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1515-1517 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 221 millimetres
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Width: 153 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Mende links the foreshortened figure of Christ to a Dürer drawing of 1505, which in its turn is influenced by Mantegna's work.
See 'Hans Baldung Grien. Das graphische Werk', Unterschneidheim 1978, no.40.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- No indication of provenance on the verso
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- E,7.203