Klagende aus einer Beweinung Christi (Kopie nach)

This 1487 painting of a mourning figure from a Lamentation is identified as a copy after Memling, produced by a close follower or workshop assistant. The Lamentation over the dead Christ was a central subject in Bruges devotional painting, and Memling's compositions of this theme were widely admired and reproduced. Hans Memling was the dominant Flemish devotional painter of the last quarter of the fifteenth century, producing altarpieces, triptychs, and devotional panels for the churches, hospitals, and private patrons of Bruges and beyond. His religious works combine the technical achievements of the van Eyck tradition — the luminous oil medium, the precise rendering of fabric, jewelry, and architectural settings — with a quality of emotional warmth and spiritual serenity that was distinctly his own. Working in Bruges during the city's final decades of commercial and cultural preeminence, he embodied the fullest expression of the northern devotional tradition before its transformation by the Italian Renaissance.

While following Memling's compositional model, the copy shows subtle differences in the handling of flesh tones and drapery that distinguish it from the master's autograph technique.