Benjamin West, 1738–1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763)
Title:
Study of the Lamentation on the Dead Christ
Date:
ca. 1785
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on paper on panel
Dimensions:
11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (29.2 x 23.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.110
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
linen | incense | Christianity | religious and mythological subject | sheet | grief | shadows | men | women | smoke | costume | mother | study (visual work) | son | incense burner | sorrow | death
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
An Empire Like This?, Mail on Sunday, November 8 2015, Art and Architecture SourceChristie's (UK), Christie's sale catalogue: Catalogue of English Pictures Prints and Drawings c. 1650 - c. 1950: 22 November 1963, Christie's, 22 November 1963, pp. 35, lot 129, DealerCat Christie's Oct. - Nov. 1963 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 242-243, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)English pictures prints and drawings, c. 1650 - c. 1950 , Christie's, London, November 22nd, 1963, p. 35, lot no. 129, Sales Catalogues (YCBA)Catherine M. Gordon, British Paintings from Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, pp. 70, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)Catherine M. Gordon, British paintings Hogarth to Turner, Frederick Warne, London, 1981, p 70, ND466 .G67 (YCBA)Loyd Grossman, Benjamin West and the struggle to be modern, Merrell, London: New York, 2015, p. 105, NJ18.W52 G76 2015 (YCBA)Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, ART News, vol. 61, 1963, pp. 8, Art and Architecture SourceLamentation Over the Dead Christ, Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, vol. 105, March 1963, pp. xxxv, Art and Architecture SourcePainting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 54 (v.1), no. 197, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)Laurie Ricou, Never Cry Wolfe: Benjamin West's The Death of Wolfe in Prochain Episode and the Diviners, Essays on Canadian Writing, vol. 20, Winter 1980-1981, pp. 171-185, Art and Architecture SourceAllen Staley, Italian Presence in American Art 1760-1860, January 1989, pp. 1-8, N6507 I.82 1989 Oversize (YCBA)