The Dead Christ with Angels
The Dead Christ with Angels is an 1864 oil painting by French painter Édouard Manet.[1][2] It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[3]
| Le Christ mort et les anges | |
|---|---|
| English: The Dead Christ with Angels | |
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| Artist | Édouard Manet |
| Year | 1864 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 179.4 cm × 149.9 cm (70 5/8 in × 59 in) |
| Location | The Met, New York City |
Background
The painting depicts the biblical story (John 20:12) of Mary Magdalene entering the tomb of Jesus and seeing two angels but finding Jesus' body missing.[1][4] Notably, Manet depicts the two angels with the body of the dead Jesus still visible.[5] The painting also depicts Jesus' spear wound on the wrong side of his body; this is a fact that Manet realized only after he had submitted the painting to the Salon.[3]
Manet also made etchings of the same subject, which are held by museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art.[6][7]
The Dead Christ with Angels (1866–1867), etching and aquatint. Cleveland Museum of Art
References
- "MoMA.org | Interactives | Exhibitions | 2006 | Manet and the Execution of Maximilian | The Dead Christ". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
- Beeny, Emily A. (2013). "Christ and the Angels: Manet, the Morgue, and the Death of History Painting?". Representations. 122 (1): 51–82. doi:10.1525/rep.2013.122.1.51. ISSN 0734-6018. JSTOR 10.1525/rep.2013.122.1.51.
- "The Dead Christ with Angels". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
- Sheppard, Jennifer M. (1981-01-01). "The Inscription in Manet's "The Dead Christ, with Angels"". Metropolitan Museum Journal. 16: 199–200. doi:10.2307/1512778. ISSN 0077-8958. JSTOR 1512778.
- Gurewich, Vladimir (1957). "Observations on the Iconography of the Wound in Christ's Side, with Special Reference to Its Position". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 20 (3/4): 358–362. doi:10.2307/750787. ISSN 0075-4390. JSTOR 750787.
- "Dead Christ with Angels". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
- Anonymous (2018-10-31). "The Dead Christ with Angels". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
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