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NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
The Lamentation
oil on panel, arched top
1612 x 978 in. (42 x 25.2 cm.)
Provenance
Robert Langston Douglas (1846-1951); his sale, Christie's, London, 5 July 1935, lot 112, as Early Dutch School.
Captain E. G. Spencer Churchill (1876-1964), Northwick Park.
Private collection, United Kingdom.
Anonymous sale; Dorotheum, Vienna, 25 April 2017, lot 4, as Netherlandish School circa 1510, where acquired by the present owner.
Exhibited
Bristol, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Art and Treasures of the West Country, 1937, no. 187, as School of Roger van der Wedyen.
Manchester, City Art Gallery, Art Treasures Centenary Exhibition, European Old Masters, 1957, no. 34.
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Lot Essay

The general composition of this deeply expressive painting is reminiscent of the group of figures in a Lamentation ascribed to Adriaen Isenbrandt in the Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp. There are marked similarities in the position of the three figures, the background view and the way in which Saint John's hand is placed on Christ's head. A comparable arrangement of figures in the space, although not with these poses, can be found in Gerard David's Lamentation in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

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