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Lamentation
Hans Baldung (Grien) (German, 1484 or 1485–1545)
about 1505–7
Medium/Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
Image: 23.5 x 16 cm (9 1/4 x 6 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 25 x 17.5 cm (9 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 25 x 17.5 cm (9 13/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number1991.355
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch 007 (as Dürer); Geisberg 65; Hollstein 52; Karlsruhe 11; Mende ; Yale 8
Signed
Not signed
Marks
Watermark: imperial eagle; verso, collector's stamp in pink, in a circle: SAMMLUNG Dr. B [not identified]; collector's stamp in purple, stamped over the previous mark, in a shield: [?] B [not identified]; in graphite: BVII.175.7/C12 £[?]14/Hans Baldung Grien; Imperial Eagle/M239a; [tracing watermark - an imperial eagle; actual watermark difficult to see]
ProvenanceJoseph Wünsch, Prague Auction, C. G. Boerner 1927; Dr. Albert W. Blum, 1882-1952 (similar to Lugt Supp. 79b); Sotheby's, New York, Feb 27, 1988, Blum sale; August Laube Buch und Kunst-antiquariat, Zurich; from whom purchased by MFA (Accession date: April 24, 1991).