The Lamentation

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1500/10

Netherlandish (Bruges)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Title: The Lamentation
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1401–1500
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 44.6 × 30.1 cm (17 9/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Painted surface: 43 × 29.1 cm (16 15/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Max and Leola Epstein Collection
Reference Number: 1954.294
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Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 18.

Sold by the art dealer Harzen, Hamburg, to the Prince of Schaumberg-Lippe, as Rogier van der Weyden, 1828 [according to Alexander Perl, Fürstliche Schlossverwaltung, Bückeburg; letter to Martha Wolff, Jan. 16, 2003, in curatorial file]; sold to Rosenbaum, Frankfurt, Apr. 3, 1929 [letter of Alexander Perl cited above]; sold to Max Epstein (d. 1954), Chicago, 1929 [receipt in registrar’s records and photograph in the Friedländer Archive, R.K.D., The Hague annotated Rosenbaum / M. Epstein / Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.

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