Lamentation
about 1460
Medium/TechniqueStone; alabaster with polychromy
Dimensions24.8 x 27.9 x 8.9 cm (9 3/4 x 11 x 3 1/2 in.)
Credit LineWilliam E. (?) Nickerson Fund
Accession number59.176
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceBayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (inv. no. 415); 1959, sold by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum to the MFA for $1000 [see note 1]. (Accession Date: January 8, 1959)
NOTES:
[1] According to a January 8, 1959 acquisition recommendation from Hanns Swarzenski, the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum needed funds to purchase an important Bavarian silver object from a New York dealer. By request of Swarzenski and the museum's director, Theodor Muller, the government granted the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum permission to sell duplicate objects in its collection to raise the necessary funds.
NOTES:
[1] According to a January 8, 1959 acquisition recommendation from Hanns Swarzenski, the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum needed funds to purchase an important Bavarian silver object from a New York dealer. By request of Swarzenski and the museum's director, Theodor Muller, the government granted the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum permission to sell duplicate objects in its collection to raise the necessary funds.
