The Lamentation

The Lamentation

Title

The Lamentation

[Nationalmuseum Stockholm, revised 2011]

Painting on limewood

Medium

Painting on limewood

[Klein, Report 1997]

Wood

[Nationalmuseum Stockholm, revised 2011]

Alder

[Cat. Breslau 1926, 18, no. 159]

Christ's corpse rests on a white cloth and is supported by the people present. These appear to be the members of a donor family. Two coats-of-arms are shown in the bottom corners of the painting. [Possibly left: the von Günterrode Family; right: the von Alnbeck Family] [see Cat. Breslau 1926,

Christ's corpse rests on a white cloth and is supported by the people present. These appear to be the members of a donor family. Two coats-of-arms are shown in the bottom corners of the painting. [Possibly left: the von Günterrode Family; right: the von Alnbeck Family] [see Cat. Breslau 1926, 18, no. 159]

Attribution
, Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

, Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda 2013]

'School of Lucas Cranach the Elder'
[Nationalmuseum Stockholm, revised 2011]
[Cat. Breslau 1926, 17, no. 159]

Production date
about 1520 - 1600

Production date

about 1520 - 1600

[cda 2013]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 156 x 131.5 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 156 x 131.5 cm

  • [Nationalmuseum Stockholm, revised 2011]

  • Dimensions of support: 155 x 132 cm

  • [Cat. Breslau 1926, 18, no. 159]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Muzeum Narodowe we Wroclawiu
Repository
Muzeum Narodowe we Wroclawiu
Location
Wroclaw
CDA ID
SE_NMS_6344
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/SE_NMS_6344/

Provenance

  • from the Princes' Chapel in Leubau
  • State property, from the Cabinet of Art and Antiquity in the Royal University[1]
  • previously in the former Schlesische Museum der Bildenden Künste in Breslau, predecessor to the present-day Muzeum Narodowe we Wroclawiu
  • in November 1945 evacuated from the Schlesische Museum der Bildenden Künste and taken to a storage facility in Kamenz, Poland
  • end of February 1946, many works went missing including this painting
  • eventually it ended up in Mariefred, where it belonged to Häggberg, a manager at the telecommunications company L M Ericsson
  • 1970 purchased by the Nationamuseum [2]
  • the Nationalmuseum returned the painting to Poland [3]
    [1][Cat. Breslau 1926, 17, 18, no. 159]
    [2][Nationalmuseum Stockholm, revised 2011]
    [3][The First News, 31.01.2022, accessed 24.02.2022]

See also [The Art Newspaper from 23rd June 2020, accessed 18.08.2020]

Exhibitions

Stockholm 1988, no. 66

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Stockholm 1988 82 No. 66 Fig. p. 82
EditorNationalmuseum, Stockholm
TitleCranach och den tyska renässancen
Place of PublicationStockholm
Year of Publication1988
Show Literature
Cat. Breslau 1926 17, 18 159
AuthorHeinz Braune, Erich Wiese
TitleKatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen. Schlesisches Museum der Bildenden Künste Breslau. VI Auflage
Place of PublicationBreslau
Year of Publication1926
Show Literature
  • The Lamentation, about 1520 - 1600

Images

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Documents

Technical studies

24.10.1997Scientific analysis

  • Identification of wood species / Dendrochronology

Support

Identification of wood species: limewood (Tilia sp.)

  • analysed by Peter Klein

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