The Lamentation
by GRÜNEWALD, Matthias, Oil on wood, 76 x 341 cm
The picture shows the predella of the Isenheim Altarpiece.
The expressivity of its figures have made Gr�newald’s Isenheim Altarpiece one of the most famous works of early German painting. Until his death in 1524, Holbein’s father worked in the same Antonite monastery that had commissioned Gr�newald’s altarpiece. Holbein the Younger will also have known the work in the original, as Isenheim is not far from Basel and so is easy to reach from there.