print
- Museum number
- 1878,0713.2259
- Title
- Object: Descent from the Cross
- Description
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Descent from the Cross after Jouvenet: five male figures taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion at centre; at ladder at right of cross; two men laying a sheet down on the ground in preparation, to lie Christ down on the floor; a basin in the immediate foreground at centre; three women in mourning at far right; a woman at far left crying into her hands.
Wood-engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1830-1870 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 207 millimetres (image)
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Width: 141 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For Jouvenet's painting in the Louvre, see A. Schnapper and C. Gouzi, 'Jean Jouvenet, 1644-1717, et la peinture d'histoire à Paris', Paris, 2010, no. P. 98, pp. 233-237.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,0713.2259
