The Lamentation

Provenance

Sold by the art dealer Harzen, Hamburg, to the Prince of Schaumberg-Lippe, as Rogier van der Weyden, 1828 [according to Alexander Perl, Fürstliche Schlossverwaltung, Bückeburg; letter to Martha Wolff, Jan. 16, 2003, in curatorial file]; sold to Rosenbaum, Frankfurt, Apr. 3, 1929 [letter of Alexander Perl cited above]; sold to Max Epstein (d. 1954), Chicago, 1929 [receipt in registrar’s records and photograph in the Friedländer Archive, R.K.D., The Hague annotated Rosenbaum / M. Epstein / Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.

The Lamentation

Netherlandish

c. 1500

Accession Number

80542

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

44.6 × 30.1 cm (17 9/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Max and Leola Epstein Collection