AT-00018471
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The Lamentation
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Johann Friedrich Overbeck (German, Lübeck 1789–1869 Rome)
- Date
- 1840–45
- Medium
- Graphite partly worked over with pen and black ink and heightened with white; graphite framing line
- Dimensions
- 17 3/8 x 20 3/4 in. (44.1 x 52.7 cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887
- Accession no.
- 87.12.146
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00018471
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