Detail of the Lamentation by Gerard David in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 2009

Lamentation

Gerard David, Netherlandish (active Bruges), first documented 1484, died 1523

Geography: Made in Netherlands (historical name, 15th-16th century), Europe

Date: c. 1515-20

Medium: Oil on panel

Dimensions: 34 1/4 x 25 5/8 inches (87 x 65.1 cm)

Curatorial Department: European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection

Object Location: Gallery 219, European Art 1100-1500, second floor

Accession Number: Cat. 328

Credit Line: John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Label:
The Virgin, John the Evangelist, and Mary Magdalene here mourn over the body of Christ on the hilltop of Golgotha. The city of Jerusalem is depicted in the left background, although the landscape shows the fertile green hills and valleys of the Low Countries. This subject was extremely popular among artists in Bruges, and several versions of it exist by Gerard David and others.


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