The Entombment

The Entombment

Title

The Entombment

[Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, no. 37]

Painting on wood (limewood)

Medium

Painting on wood (limewood)

[Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, no. 37]

The painting depicts a scene from the Passion with a large marble sarcophagus placed horizontally to occupy the foreground. Figure are arranged frieze-like around it. Unusually in this depiction of the entombment Christ is placed in the tomb by five bearded men. Two of these can be identified, Joseph of

The painting depicts a scene from the Passion with a large marble sarcophagus placed horizontally to occupy the foreground. Figure are arranged frieze-like around it. Unusually in this depiction of the entombment Christ is placed in the tomb by five bearded men. Two of these can be identified, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. They are typically represented together with St John, who is shown here behind at the left standing beside the Virgin morning with the three Marys. A third bearded man positioned at the centre in front of the sarcophagus on a strip of grass rendered in wonderful detail acts as a sort of go between. The burial scene is framed by a rocky arch that at the same time provides a view of a town in a distant landscape.

[cda 2021]

Attribution
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attribution

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, no. 37] [Exhib. Cat. St Petersburg 2016, 174, no. 36]

Production date
about 1550 - 1574

Production date

about 1550 - 1574

(third quarter of the 16th century) [Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016, 174, no. 36][Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, 146, no. 37]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 55 x 55 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 55 x 55 cm

  • [Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, no. 37]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Repository
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Location
Moscow
CDA ID
RU_SMBKPM_409
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/RU_SMBKPM_409/

Connected Works

Agony in the Garden
  • Agony in the Garden, about 1550 - 1574
  • RU_SMBKPM_408
  • Painting
  • The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

Provenance

  • 1902 gifted by D. I. Schtschukin to the Rumjanzew-Museum, Moscow
  • 1924 acquired by the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
    [Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, no. 37]

Exhibitions

Moscow 1963, no. c. 42
St Petersburg 2016, no. 36
Moscow 2016, no. 37

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016 146, 147 037 Fig. p. 147
EditorThe Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
TitleKranachi: mezdi Renessansom i Man'erizmom / The Cranachs. Between the renaissance and mannerism
Place of PublicationMoscow
Year of Publication2016
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016 174-175, 177 036 Fig. pp. 174, 177
AuthorMaria Pavlovna Garlova
EditorThe State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
TitleKranachi: mezdi Renessansom i Man'erizmom / The Cranachs. Between the renaissance and mannerism
Place of PublicationSt. Petersburg
Year of Publication2016
Show Literature
  • The Entombment, about 1550 - 1574

Images

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Condition Reports

  • cradled on the reverse

[Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, 146, no. 37]

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