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Lamentation over Christ
Francesco Saverio Mergaloca. 1800
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Vertically arranged figure group. In the center, Virgin Mary cradles Jesus' body. Joseph stands on the left with his arms outstretched and several angels fly overhead.
Details
- Title: Lamentation over Christ
- Creator: Francesco Saverio Mergolo
- Creator Lifespan: 1746/1786
- Date Created: ca. 1800
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, black chalk on off-white laid paper, laid down
- Provenance: Ex-collection:Giovanni Piancastelli
- Exhibitions: New York, NY- Finch College Museum of Art, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum,” Febuary 4. - March 20 1970.
- Dimensions: 36.9 x 25.9 cm (14 1/2 x 10 3/16 in.)
- Bibliography: Elaine Evans Dee, "The Two Sicilies, Drawings from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum," exhibition catalog (New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1970) no. 68 (illus.).
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