Lamentation over the Dead Christ
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1580 – 1605
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: Lamentation scene with Mary holding the body of Christ at the base of the cross. His body is presented frontally at center. Other figures gather closely around, weeping, praying, and embracing him. 
label: Description
content: Verso: View of a sideboard with dishes, seen at an oblique angle from the left.
place: label: made in
content: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Janos Scholz
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1947-58-3
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 13.9 × 10.8 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)