FDA-P.523-2014
Parts
Object number
FDA-P.523-2014
Object type
Identification
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.
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
width (canvas): 2013mm
height (frame): 1220mm
width (frame): 2380mm
depth (frame): 110mm
Inscription
With framed inscription carving beneath:
'MACNA EST VELUT MARE CONTRITIO TUA'
'MACNA EST VELUT MARE CONTRITIO TUA'
Materials & techniques note
Oil on canvas
Physical description
Carved gilt frame - not the original frame
Production
Person
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
