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Lamentation (Gerard David)

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161: 29: 227:", but others not. In the two panels the figures are about the same size, and the horizons at the same level, and no other panels of these dimensions are attributed to David or his workshop. Both panels are planed down at the back, and may originally have been painted on both sides, as parts of the wings of an altarpiece on the 271:
If they were separated at this point, they were reunited by 1831, when their certain history begins, in the collection of Karl Aders, a German merchant resident in London. Both were auctioned again in August 1835 and bought by a Dr Willis, later passing to a surgeon, Joseph Henry Green, who lived in
199:'s approach to realism. David was innovative in his depiction of religious subjects, which he represented not as icons but rather as approachable individuals. Additionally, David was known for the originality of his treatment of color and light. 280:. Green died in 1863 and his widow (Anne Eliza, d. 1879) bequeathed all the Dutch and Flemish paintings in the collection to the National Gallery, who received them in 1880. No loans to outside exhibitions are recorded since (to 1998). 267:
was merely described as "Flemish". They fetched £4 and £4,12 shillings respectively, but different buyers are recorded. Both paintings have a pink paper label inscribed "King 157" pasted on their reverses.
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While its exact dating is debated, it seems likely that it was completed between 1515 and 1523. This painting and David's
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may have been in a sale of the pictures of Frederick Benjamin King (a bankrupt sugar-refiner) at
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For all the known history of the painting it has been together with the NG 1079
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63 cm × 61.5 cm (25 in × 24.2 in)
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art, although this treatment, dating back to a subject known as the
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holds him in her arms, weeping for his death watched over by
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Gerard David : purity of vision in an age of transition
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is some 3 cm larger in both dimensions, and its
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is not quite certain, but it seems most likely. The
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Art Treasures Exhibition, held in Manchester in 1857
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Gerard David
Oil on oak
National Gallery
London
Lamentation of Christ
painter
illuminator
Gerard David
Christ
shroud
Mary Magdalene
Virgin Mary
Saint John

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Adoration of the Kings
Lamentation of Christ
Renaissance
Jan van Eyck
polyptych
underdrawing
Life of Christ
Life of the Virgin
Christie's
Jan Gossaert
Maubeuge
Monken Hadley
Art Treasures Exhibition, held in Manchester in 1857

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