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Lamentation over the Dead Christ

A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache and traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on brown laid paper.
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  • A work made of pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache and traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on brown laid paper.

Date:

1635

Artist:

Pietro da Cortona
Italian, 1596-1669

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Pietro da Cortona

Title

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1635

Medium

Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache and traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on brown laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: 'H Brandi"; recto, lower center on mount, in graphite: "Hyacinthe Brandi"; verso on mount, upper right, in graphite: "6"

Dimensions

23.5 × 20.8 cm (9 5/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1998.104

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