The ''Deposition'' or ''Lamentation over the Dead Christ'' is a painting by the Flemish artist
Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (; ; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque painting, Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh child of ...
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Dating to 1635, it is one of his final treatments of the subject. It was commissioned by
Cesare Alessandro Scaglia
Cesare Alessandro Scaglia (1592 – May 21, 1641) was an Italian cleric and diplomat of the early 17th century. He was also abbot of Staffarda Abbey (from 1603), the Abbey of St. Justus in Susa (from 1613), and the Abbey of St. Pietro di Muleggi ...
, who intended it to hang over his tomb in the
Recollects Convent in Antwerp. It is now in the
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp ( Dutch: ''Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen''; KMSKA) is a museum in Antwerp, Belgium, founded in 1810, that houses a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the fourteenth to t ...
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See also
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List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck
The following is an incomplete list of works by the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641).
Portraits (1613–1632)
Between 1613 and 1632, van Dyck travelled all over Europe – from his native Antwerp (where he began working as a painte ...
References
1635 paintings
Religious paintings by Anthony van Dyck
Paintings of the Descent from the Cross
Paintings of the Virgin Mary
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