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The Lamentation
Battista Franco Veneziano1545–1550
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
This small, intricately-worked drawing is preparatory of one of the nine engravings in Franco's Life and Passion of Christ series. The lines of the composition have been incised with a stylus to transfer the design directly to the printing plate, and the resulting print is correspondingly in reverse.
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Details
- Title: The Lamentation
- Creator: Battista Franco
- Date Created: 1545–1550
- Location Created: Italy
- Physical Dimensions: 14.2 × 8.2 cm (5 9/16 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Pen and brown ink
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 2017.12
- Culture: Italian
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Isabel Stainow Wilcox
- Creator Display Name: Battista Franco (Italian, 1510? - 1561)
- Classification: Drawings (Visual Works)
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