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The ''Deposition'' is a 1634 painting by the Flemish artist
The ''Deposition'' is a 1634 painting by the Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh c ...
. It is now in the Alte Pinakothek
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in Munich
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. The artist had already treated the same subject on at least two other occasions, in 1615
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and 1619
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