Anonymous - Descent from the Cross - fine art print

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Descent from the Cross was by Anonymous. The version of the piece of art measures the size: Height: 67,5 cm, Width: 54 cm and was painted with the techinque of Oil painting. Label - old label on the back: No. 2341 " was the painting's original inscription. The piece of art can be viewed in in the Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris's art collection. With courtesy of Petit Palais Paris (licensed - public domain).Creditline of the artwork: . On top of that, alignment is in portrait format and has an aspect ratio of 1 : 1.2, meaning that the length is 20% shorter than the width.

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• The poster print on canvas material: The poster print is a UV printed sheet of canvas paper with a slightly rough structure on the surface. It is qualified for framing your art replica in a personal frame. Please keep in mind, that depending on the size of the poster we add a white margin of approximately 2-6 cm round about the print in order to facilitate the framing.
• Canvas: A UV printed canvas material mounted on a wooden stretcher frame. Canvas Prints have the advantage of being low in weight, which implies that it is quite simple to hang your Canvas print without extra wall-mounts. A canvas print is suitable for any type of wall.
• The acrylic glass print (with real glass coating on top): The print on acrylic glass, often named a an art print on plexiglass, will turn an original work of art into beautiful décor. Beyond that, the acrylic fine art print offers a great alternative option to canvas or dibond prints. The work of art will be made with the help of state-of-the-art UV direct print machines. The major advantage of an acrylic glass fine art copy is that contrasts plus small details become visible because of the precise gradation of the print. The real glass coating protects your custom art print against sunlight and heat for many more years to come.
• Metal (aluminium dibond print): Aluminium Dibond prints are metal prints with an impressive depth. The Aluminium Dibond Print is the excellent introduction to art reproductions produced on aluminum. The bright parts of the original artwork shimmer with a silky gloss but without any glow. The colors of the print are luminous and bright, the fine details appear clear and crisp, and the print has a a matte look that you can literally feel. The direct print on aluminium is the most popular entry-level product and is an extremely modern way to display art reproductions, because it draws focus on the image.

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Structured details of the artwork

Artist table

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Titled "Descent from the Cross", this painting illustrates actually quite the next episode of the Passion, during which close to Christ crying and kissing his dead body before turning to the grave. In the background, the two thieves are still clinging to their cross and the man who has detached Christ descends the ladder as if it were the steps of an original escalier.L'œuvre Rogier van der Weyden, who served as a model for the realization of this table is lost today. She had to be a great success, since the tracks are preserved its composition with a drawing in the Louvre Museum and a copy of the J. Paul Getty Museum.Le drawing and copying are extremely close, and offer an array of characters in a rectangular format, which is reminiscent of the "Descent from the cross" (Madrid, Prado Museum), painted by maître.Le table shows the Petit Palais, meanwhile, the group main on the drawing, but tightens. The figure of Christ then adopts a more than elongated sitting posture. But the main peculiarity of this picture is the background in which the artist takes more liberties by abandoning the gold background in favor of a landscape background and adding the pattern of three crosses.

On 10 November 1919, Charles Vincent Ocampo acquired the painting from the merchant José Cavestany with the "Madonna and Child" by Jan Gossaert (PPP02526), ​​to 4500 pesos. Purchased in Buenos Aires, the two paintings were transported to Paris and hung in the mansion of the collector, who donated it subject to usufruct, to the City of Paris in 1931. He renounced the usufruct in 1942.

Christ Jesus; Marie Sainte (Virgin, biblical character); Jean (says the Evangelist, St); Madeleine (called Marie-Madeleine; holy); Joseph of Arimathea (Biblical figure)

Biblical scene, scene of the New Testament, Christ's Passion, Crucifixion, Descent from the Cross, Cross, Skull, Pain