The Lamentation, ca. 1505, Pen and black ink, over black chalk, 6 x 9 in. (15.3 x 22.9 cm), Drawings, circle of Jan de Beer (Netherlandish, Antwerp ca. 1475–1528 Antwerp), This exceptionally fine work exemplifies the early sixteenth-century Antwerp Mannerist drawing style. Possibly by Jan de Beer, one of the greatest practitioners of this school, the drawing depicts the Lamentation, with Christ's body laid out on a linen cloth in the foreground and figures around him expressing various stages of mourning and despair
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Lamentation, ca, 1505, Pen, black ink, chalk, 6 x 9, 15.3 22.9 cm, Drawings, circle of Jan de Beer, Netherlandish, Antwerp ca., 1475–1528, Antwerp, exceptionally, fine, work, exemplifies, early sixteenth-century, Mannerist, drawing, style, Jan de, Beer, greatest practitioners, school, drawing depicts, Christ, body laid, out, linen cloth, foreground, figures, expressing various, stages, mourning, despair
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