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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.339
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
The Lamentation of Christ
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1521
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299883

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on white antique laid paper
Dimensions
29 × 21 cm (11 7/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
framed: 46 × 37.8 × 4.8 cm (18 1/8 × 14 7/8 × 1 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, u.r.: 1521 / AD [monogram]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Baron Dominique Vivant Denon, Paris. Possibly Thomas Lawrence. Pierre Defer and Henri Dumesnil, Paris (Lugt 739), sold; [through his sale, Paris, May 10-12, 1900, lot 38]. Leboeuf de Montgermont, sold; [through his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 16-19 June 1919, lot 232]. Féral, sold; to Paul J. Sachs; Meta and Paul J. Sachs, 1927, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.339
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Ephrussi, Albert Dürer et ses dessins, Maison Quantin (Paris, 1882), p. 96, repr.
  • Friedrich Lippmann, Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer, George Grote (Berlin, 1883-1929), part 29, no. 379, repr. in facsimile
  • Jan Veth and Samuel Muller, Albrecht Dürers Niederländische Reise, Grote (Berlin, 1918), vol. 2, p. 134
  • Heinrich Wölfflin, Albrecht Dürer: Handzeichnungen, R. Piper (Munich, 1919), pl. 70
  • Tableaux modernes, aquarelles et dessins..., auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, June 16-19, 1919), no. 232
  • Eduard Flechsig, Albrecht Dürer: sein Leben und seine Künstlerische Entwickelun, G. Grote (Berlin, 1928-1931), vol. 2, pp. 125, 344, no. 1175
  • Hans Tietze and Erika Tietze-Conrat, Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers, Holbein-Verlag (Leipzig, Germany, 1928-1938), vol. 2, no. 881
  • Friedrich Winkler, Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers, Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft (Berlin, Germany, 1936-1939), vol. 4, no. 881
  • Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), no. 36, pp. 42, 43, pl. XVIII
  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 377, pp. 188-89, vol. III, fig. 192, repr.
  • Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 11, repr.
  • Albrecht Dürer, 147l-1971, exh. cat., Germanisches Nationalmuseum and Prestel (Munich, 1971), p. 126
  • Albert Dürer aux Pays-Bas: son voyage (1520-1521), son influence, exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (Brussels, 1977), no. 96, repr.
  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 25, n.p., pl. 25, repr.
  • Charles Werner Haxthausen, The Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1980), p. 144, repr.
  • Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1986), cat. no. 147, repr.
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), cat. no. 261, p. 224, repr.
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), p. 212, repr.
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, pp. 32-33
  • Jordan Kantor, Dürer's Passions, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2000), cat. no. 92, repr.
  • Johann Kräftner, ed., Rubens in Vienna: The Masterpieces, exh. cat., Christian Brandstätter Verlag/Liechtenstein Museum (Vienna, 2004), under cat. no. 17, fig. 1, repr.
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 67, repr.
  • Peter van den Brink, Dürer war hier: Eine Reisew wird Legende, exh. cat., Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen (Aachen, 2021), cat. no. 72, pl. 240, p. 371
  • Susan Foister and Peter van den Brink, Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist, exh. cat., National Gallery Company Limited (London, 2021), cat. no. 105, pp. 241, 295, repr. p. 243

Exhibition History

  • Style and Technique: Their Interrelation in Western European Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/01/1936 - 12/31/1936
  • Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
  • Albert Dürer aux Pays-Bas: Son voyage (1520-1521), son influence, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 10/01/1977 - 11/27/1977
  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • Northern Renaissance Art: Selected Works, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 02/28/1984 - 04/08/1984
  • Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg 1300-1550, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 04/08/1986 - 06/22/1986; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 07/24/1986 - 09/28/1986
  • The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
  • Dürer's Passions, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/09/2000 - 12/03/2000
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) HAA252k The Age of Durer, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2008 - 02/06/2009
  • Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Aachen, Aachen, 07/18/2021 - 10/24/2021; National Gallery, 11/20/2021 - 02/27/2022

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights
  • Google Art Project

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