The Entombment of Christ (Delacroix)
The Entombment of Christ is an 1820 painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, constituting a minor reworking of The Entombment of Christ, a c.1520 work by Titian. He left it to his pupil Paul Chenavard, who in 1881 left it to the musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, where it still hangs.
History of the work
This painting is a copy of Titian's painting, named The Transport of Christ to the Tomb, kept at the Louvre. It is part of a long list of copies of Titian's painting. The Transport of Christ to the Tomb was painted for the Gonzaga family of Mantua (large Italian family). It is a canvas inspired by Raphaël, a contemporary of Titian, but the latter breathed into the work a dramatic, clean scope, in the sense that it is contained: twilight sky, particular use of the play between shadow and light. light, the Virgin Mary, broken with pain before the body of Jesus Christ, is painted with great compassion. Delacroix tackled this painting because he was struck by a kind of coldness, of dryness in the work of Titian. He says he is struck by “the insignificance and flatness of the painting”. The Entombment after Titian was bequeathed by Eugène Delacroix to Paul Chenavard, one of his students. Chenavard himself donated it to the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon in 1881. This painting was restored in 1979 by Alain G. Boissonnas, being the subject of an aqueous relining respecting the original format.[1]
References
- ^ Durey, Philippe (2020), "De la collection à l'enseignement, le rôle particulier de l'École du Louvre", Louvre, Collège de France, doi:10.4000/books.cdf.10214, ISBN 9782722605596, S2CID 229637784, retrieved 2022-04-01
Bibliography
- Delacroix copiste, copier créer de Turner à Picasso. 300 œuvres inspirées par les maîtres du Louvres, Paris, 26 avril-26 juillet 1993. Réunion des musées nationaux.
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