Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
The Lamentation
Also titled De Bewening
Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen (Beverwijk, ca. –ca.)
c. 1532 - c. 1535
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 180 mm x width 257 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt with additional funding from the Stortenbeker Fonds, the Stichting Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit and the Mondriaan Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This drawing has all the drama of a medieval passion play. The contrast between the limp, broken body of Christ and the emotional turmoil of the other figures is heart-rending. With its dense parallel and crosshatching, the drawing style lends itself for comparison with Vermeyen’s etchings. The drawing has been squared for transfer (overmarked with a grid), suggesting that it is a design for a painting.
