, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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The Lamentation, c. 1498-1499
Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471
- 1528
woodcut on laid paper
39.2 x 28.3 cm
Purchased 1923
National Gallery of Canada (no. 2924)
In the Passion cycle, Christ’s Descent from the Cross is followed by a period of mourning called the Lamentation. Dürer places the scene before the opening of the Holy Sepulchre to the right. The composition has a pyramidal organization of figures around the horizontal body of Christ. St. John the Evangelist holds Christ’s upper body, while the Virgin takes her son’s hand. Mary Magdalene (wearing a headband) throws up her hands in sorrow. This study in grief is set in a northern European landscape dominated by craggy rocks and slender trees, with Jerusalem in the background as a river village of towers.
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