print
- Museum number
- 1919,0415.732
- Title
- Object: Christo Morto
- Description
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The dead Christ, wrapped in a shroud; after the marble statue of 1753 in the Sansevero Chapel in Naples. 1840s
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1840-1850 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 370 millimetres
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Width: 535 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The state is Sanmartino's first work, which won him immediate fame. The commission had originally been given to the Venetian Antonio Corradini, but he died in 1752 and Sanmartino took over the commission, working from Corradini's terracotta model.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1919,0415.732
