Title: The Lamentation
Object type: Drawing
Date: 1840–45
Artist:  Johann Friedrich Overbeck 
Artist bio: German, Lübeck 1789–1869 Rome
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Graphite partly worked over with pen and black ink and heightened with white; graphite framing line
Dimensions: 17 3/8 x 20 3/4 in.  (44.1 x 52.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Lamentation