The ''Deposition'' or ''Lamentation over the Dead Christ'' was a painting by the Flemish painter

Anthony van Dyck Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. The seventh c ...

, produced between 1629 and 1630. It measured 220 cm by 166 cm. Its final owners were the Kaiser Friedrich Museum then the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, before it was lost (either missing or destroyed) in May 1945 in the Friedrichshain flak tower fire. A copy of the work is now in the Gedächtniskapelle of the Deutschordensmünster in

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References

*Christopher Norris, 'The Disaster at Flakturm Friedrichshain; A Chronicle and List of Paintings', ''

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'', Vol. 94, No. 597 (Dec., 1952), pp. 337–347 {{Authority control 1630 paintings Paintings by Anthony van Dyck Paintings of the Descent from the Cross Paintings depicting Mary Magdalene Paintings of the Virgin Mary Paintings of the Lamentation of Christ