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The Lamentation
Petrus Christus (Baarle 1410/20 – Bruges 1475/76)
Date ca. 1455-1460
Collection Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles
Subject Lamentation of Christ
Season Holy Week
Master 3,044 px
License Public domain
Sizes
8×10 in$49
About this painting
A hundred centimetres tall and a hundred and ninety-two wide. Christ is laid out along a landscape the way a body is laid on a tomb slab, and the format is the argument: nothing in this picture rises, everything lies down. Brussels bought the panel from a dealer named Lucq in 1844 and publishes nothing else about it — no essay, no commentary, one line of acquisition. What the museum will not tell you, the shape of the thing says.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,044 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.