DrawingsItalian16th century

Bearing the Body of Christ

16th century

Artists

Polidoro da CaravaggioArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, brown wash over black chalk, traces of red chalk, heightened with white gouache, on cream antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

21.7 × 18.3 cm (8 9/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

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