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The Lamentation

Maker

(artist)
1599-1641

(engraver)
1603-1658

Title

The Lamentation

Date of Production

1630

Dimensions

Height: 40.7 cm
Width: 35 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.1009

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Notes

After the painting by Anthony van Dyck formerly for the altarpiece of the Béguinage in Antwerp, now in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, inv. no. 403. (New Hollstein 538.II)

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: recto, below image : O Astra o coeli numquam violabilis ignes! / Condite nigranti lumina vestra peplo. / Extinctum flemus crudeli funere Natum: / Qui quondam vobis, qui mihi lumen erat. //

Inscription: recto, lower margin : Religiosae Driae ANNAE VAN DYCK Monasterij Facontini Passionis Dominicae hoc theatridium Germanae suae ponebat Antonius van Dyck //

Inscription: recto, lower margin : Antonius van Dyck inven. / Cum privilegiis Regis / Pauls. Pontius Scripsit. //

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