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The Deposition: Right Hand Panel

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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This panel, which shows Christ’s body being taken down from the Cross, is the right wing of a triptych (a painting in three parts) made for a convent near Delft in around 1510. The other panels, which are also in the National Gallery’s collection, show Christ being led out after his trial and the Crucifixion. In the background three men gently support Christ’s body. Mary Magdalene, in the same red dress and white headdress as in the central panel, is helping them. In the foreground the Virgin and Saint John are surrounded by grieving women, as they are in the Crucifixion scene; if these are the same four women, they are wearing different clothes here. On the back of the panel, Saints Peter and Mary Magdalene are painted to look like stone statues in a shared niche.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

The Deposition: Right Hand Panel

Date

about 1510

Medium

Oil with some egg tempera on oak

Measurements

H 102 x W 49.4 cm

Accession number

NG2922.3

Acquisition method

Presented by Earl Brownlow, 1913

Work type

Painting

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