The Lamentation
1840–45
Medium
Graphite partly worked over with pen and black ink and heightened with white; graphite framing line
Dimensions
17 3/8 x 20 3/4 in. (44.1 x 52.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887
Accession Number
87.12.146
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · 1789–1869
**Johann Friedrich Overbeck** (3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869) was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene movement. Born in Lübeck into a prominent Protestant family—his father, Christian Adolph Overbeck, was a doctor of law, poet, mystic pietist, and burgomaster—he received early classical and artistic instruction at the local Gymnasium under his uncle. Overbeck left Lübeck in 1806 to st...