The Lamentation over the Dead Body of Christ

First half of the XVII century. Pencil ground, Wash, White lead, Grey-brown ink, Pencil on paper.
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In a pencil note on the old mount, Michael Hirst has written: Copy after lost Polidoro. The drawing is by a seventeenth-century hand, and it is not impossible that it is by Pietro Testa.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Chicago, Art Services International, 2008, p.359

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The Lamentation over the Dead Body of Christ

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Inventory number: D003009
Author: Anonymous (Copy: Polidoro da Caravaggio)
Title: The Lamentation over the Dead Body of Christ
Date: First half of the XVII century
Technique: Pencil ground; Wash; White lead; Grey-brown ink; Pencil
Support: Paper
Dimension: Height: 200 mm; Width: 275 mm
Provenance: Bequest of Pedro Fernández Durán y Bernaldo de Quirós, 1931
Entry date: 1931

Bibliography +

Museo Nacional del Prado, Catálogo de dibujos. Dibujos italianos del siglo XVI (por Nicholas Turner, con la colaboración de José Manuel Matilla), V, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2004, pp. 359.

Turner, Nicholas, From Michelangelo to Annibale Carracci. A century of Italian drawings from the Prado, Art Services International, Chicago, 2008, pp. 359.

Other inventories +

Inv. Legado Pedro Fernández Durán, 1931. Núm. 171.

Update date: 02-06-2026 | Registry created on 28-04-2015

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