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Lamentation of Christ  is an oil-on-panel painting of the common subject of the Lamentation of Christ attributed to German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, executed around 1498 and now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum of Nuremberg, Germany.
The work was executed for the family chapel of Karl Holzschuher in the church of Sankt Johannis in Nuremberg. Dürer's monogram can be seen  in the corner of Jesus' white shroud, but it is commonly considered to be apocryphal.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum oil-on-panel Germany panel painting Nuremberg monogram Albrecht Dürer Lamentation of Christ