The Lamentation of Christ, Hercules Segers, after Hans Baldung Grien, c. 1630 - c. 1633

Title(s)

The Lamentation of Christ
Lamentation of Christ

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-797

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 2-a
• Leeflang 2-a
• Haverkamp-Begemann 2-a

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Lichaam van dode Christus liggend op de grond. Bewening door Johannes, Maria en Maria Magdalena.

Artist

• print maker: Hercules Segers
• after print by: Hans Baldung Grien

Place

Amsterdam (possibly)

Dating

c. 1630 - c. 1633

Physical features

line etching with tone and highlights created by using crosshatching and stopping-out, printed in black on paper prepared with a cream-coloured ground containing lead

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height c. 163 mm × width c. 157 mm (trimmed within the printed surface, at the top almost along the plate mark)

What

• Christ's body lying on the ground

Credit line

• Transferred from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague), 1816

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hercules Segers : painter, etcher, Hercules Seghers, Huigen Leeflang, Pieter Roelofs, p. 160, cat.nr. HB 2a
• Hercules Segers : the complete etchings, Karel Gerard Boon, Egbert Haverkamp Begemann, Eduard Trautscholdt, p. 66, cat.nr. 2a
• Grafiek van Hercules Seghers, Karel Gerard Boon, Jan Verbeek, p. 19, cat.nr. 2