Lamentation over the Dead Christ

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Artist Bernardino Luini (Italian (Lombard), c. 1480/85–1532)Italian (Lombard), c. 1480/85–1532

CultureItalian

Titles

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Datec. 1515–1520

PlaceItaly

MediumOil on wood

Dimensionspanel: 34 3/8 × 23 11/16 in. (87.2 × 60.2 cm)
frame: 43 × 33 inches

Credit LineThe Samuel H. Kress Collection

Object number61.68

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceCollection of Duca Barromeo Monti, Milan, No. 303 in the inventory of 1830; [Contini Bonacossi, Florence]; Samuel H. Kress Collection, New York, 1950; gift to MFAH, 1961.
Exhibition History"Art Treasures for America," National Gallery of Art, Washinton, D.C., December 9, 1961–February 1, 1962.

Austin College, Sherman, Texas, March 30– April 20, 1963.

First Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, June 2–9, 1967.

"Bernardino Luini and his sons," Palazzo Reale, Milan, April 7–July 13, 2014.
Published References "The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: A Guide to the Collection," intro. by William C. Agee, entry by J. Patrice Marandel, No. 52, p. 76 (1981) Dr. Carolyn C. Wilson, "Italian Paintings XIV-XVI in The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in association with Rice University Press and Merrell Holberton Publishers, London, 1996, cat. no. 29

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