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The Lamentation of Christ with the Virgin, Saint John, Mary Magdalene, and a Donor

(South German (Swabian), about 1460–1480)
about 1460–80
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut in brown ink with hand-applied watercolor
DimensionsOverall: 37.5 × 27.5 cm (14 3/4 × 10 13/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Francis Warden Fund
Accession number53.359
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsFour lines of Latin verse carved in the block below the image (not transcribed)
ProvenanceMay 12, 1902, anonymous ("from a very old and prominent family library") sale, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, lot 456. March 2-4, 1953, anonymous sale, Nicolas Rauch, Geneva, lot 47, to William H. Schab (dealer), New York; April 9, 1953, sold by Schab to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 9, 1953)
An Infant Sleeping on a Cross and Skull
Unidentified artist, Italian, 17th century
17th–mid 17th century
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Louis Valtat
about 1895