The Lamentation
Object type: Painting
Department: European Paintings
Artist: Petrus Christus
Artist bio: Netherlandish, Baarle-Hertog (Baerle-Duc), active by 1444–died 1475/76 Bruges
Artist role: Artist
Artist nationality: Netherlandish
Date: ca. 1450
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: Overall 10 1/8 x 14 in. (25.7 x 35.6 cm); painted surface 10 x 13 3/4 in. (25.4 x 34.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit line: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890
Accession year: 1891
Tags: Sadness|Suffering|Mary Magdalene|Saint John the Evangelist|Lamentation|Death|Christ|Virgin Mary