The Lamentation / Hans Baldung Grien
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- Accession Number
- 1960/1.168
- Title
- The Lamentation
- Artist
- Hans Baldung Grien
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Artist Life Dates
- 1484/85-1545
- Medium and Support
- woodcut on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1515-1517
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Alsace (region)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Alsace (region)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jean Paul Slusser
- Style/Group/Movement
- Northern Renaissance
- Inscription
- Signed on block:
- Dimensions
- 22.2 cm x 15.2 cm (8 3/4 in. x 6 in.)
- Century
- 16th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Physical Description
- Three grief-striken figures lament over the body of a dead man lying on the ground before them. One of these figures, a robed woman who clasps her hands in agony, leans forward to peer into the face of the dead man, who is rendered with dramatic foreshortening. To the left of this woman sits a long-haired man wiping his eyes while another woman with wild unkempt hair seated next to him raises her arms in abject sorrow. Three nails and a pair of vessels sit in the immediate foreground next to the artist's initials "HGB."
- Subject Matter
- This woodcut print depicts the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist, and Mary Magdalene lamenting over the body of Christ at the foot of the cross. The Virgin, with her cowl drawn over her head, leans over Christ's body, while John and the Magdalene, wild with grief, sit behind her. The posts of the three crosses and a ladder as well as the feet of the two criminals executed with Christ appear behind this dramatic knot of figures. The nails driven through Christ's hands and feet sit prominently alongside two vessels in the foreground.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 835 x 1207
- File Size
- 316 KB
- Record
- 1960/1.168
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"The Lamentation; Hans Baldung Grien." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1960-sl-1.168/1960_1.168.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2024.