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Lamentation of Christ (Beweinung Christi) — Geertgen tot Sint Jans
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Lamentation of Christ (Beweinung Christi)

Geertgen tot Sint Jans (um 1460/65 Leiden (?) - nach 1490 Haarlem)
Date ab 1484
Collection Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Subject Lamentation of Christ
Season Holy Week
Master 4,831 px
License Public domain

Sizes

18×24 in$140
sheet 18×24 in · image 18×22.6 in · archival margin · 214 dpi
32×48 in$340
sheet 32×48 in · image 32×40.2 in · archival margin · 120 dpi
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About this painting

This is a survivor. It was the inner face of the right wing of the high altar of the Knights of Saint John at Haarlem — Geertgen's masterpiece — and the centre panel with its Crucifixion and the whole left wing were destroyed, in the Iconoclasm or in the Spanish siege. What is left is the mourning. The panel has been cut down at the top, then carried to Utrecht, back to Haarlem, given by the States General to Charles I of England, and on through two more collections to Vienna.

Sources: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie, 'Beweinung Christi' / 'The Lamentation of Christ', inv. 991; German and English object records read 2026-08-27.

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,831 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.