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Christ and the Maries (The Entombment)
1854
- Medium
- oil on wood panel
- Measurements
- 55.4 × 45.6 cm
- Inscription
- inscribed in black paint l.l.: Ary Scheffer 1854.
- Accession Number
- 1426-3
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Henry Wagner, 1925
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- 19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Ary Scheffer painted a large version of Christ and the Maries (Manchester City Art Gallery) in 1845, executing this smaller variant nine years later.
- Subjects (general)
- Ceremonial and Funerary Human Figures Religion and Mythology
- Subjects (specific)
- deaths Entombment of Christ (New Testament narrative) grief Jesus Christ (Christian character) mourners praying shrouds women (female humans)
- Provenance
- Collection of J. P. Gilkinet, Liege, until 1863; his sale, Hôtel des Commissaires-Priseurs, Paris, 18 April 1863, no. 17; purchased by Renault (dealer?); sold to William Graham (1817–85), Glasgow, c. 1863; collection of William Graham, Glasgow, until 1885; included in William Graham sale, Christie's, London, 2–10 April 1886 (sold 2 April), no. 82 ; from where purchased by Henry Wagner; collection of Henry Wagner 1886–1925; by whom donated to the NGV, 1925.
