Title: The Lamentation
Object type: Painting
Date: ca. 1450
Artist:  Petrus Christus 
Artist bio: Netherlandish, Baarle-Hertog (Baerle-Duc), active by 1444–died 1475/76 Bruges
Artist nationality: Netherlandish
Artist role: Artist
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
Department: European Paintings
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Sadness, term: Suffering, term: Christ, term: Mary Magdalene, term: Saint John the Evangelist, term: Virgin Mary, term: Lamentation, term: Death