The Lamentation, ca. 1505, Pen and black ink, over black chalk, 6 x 9 in. (15. 3 x 22. 9 cm), Drawings, circle of Jan de Beer (Netherlandish, Antwerp ca. 1475?1528 Antwerp), This exceptionally fine work exemplifies the early sixteenth-century Antwerp Mannerist drawing style. Possibly by Jan de Beer, one of the greatest practitioners of this school, the drawing depicts the Lamentation, with Christ's body laid out on a linen cloth in the foreground and figures around him expressing various stages of mourning and despair