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Object number

FDA-P.523-2014

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Title

The Lamentation

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Painted scene showing reclining woman, with left arm outstretched, cradling a nude reclining male figure with her right arm; the man lies on a shroud, at his feet are two putti, one wiping his eyes, the other lifting the shroud

Comments

This work hangs over the altar within Our Lady of Sorrows, Eton, a remarkable little chapel, which has a continental Baroque frontage, an interior of sumptuous marble floors and pillars, and six small side chapels.

Our Lady of Sorrows was built by OE Alfred, 5th Lord Braye (1849-1928) in 1914-15 and furnished with some items from Braye’s chapel at Stanford Hall, Leicestershire. 'The Lamentation', a 17th-century pieta, showing the Virgin in mourning, cradling the dead body of Christ, can be seen in its’ former home, over the altar at the chapel in Stanford Hall, in an illustration to Braye’s autobiography 'Fewness of my Days', published in 1927.

Description

Dimensions

height (canvas): 855mm
width (canvas): 2013mm
height (frame): 1220mm
width (frame): 2380mm
depth (frame): 110mm

Inscription

With framed inscription carving beneath:
'MACNA EST VELUT MARE CONTRITIO TUA'

Physical description

Carved gilt frame - not the original frame

Production

Date

early 17th century

History and association

Object history note

Provenance: Collection of Alfred Thomas Townshend Verney-Cave, 5th Baron Braye (1849-1928); collection of the Catholic Diocese of Northampton; from whom (Our Lady of Sorrows chapel and contents, including this work) purchased by Eton College in 2012
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