The Entombment of Christ

ca. 1702

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 626

Juan Rodríguez Juárez was a versatile artist who excelled as a painter of altarpieces as well as portraits and small devotional works such as the Entombment of Christ. This work displays the brilliant color and vigorous modeling characteristic of the earliest phase of his career. The composition derives from a Flemish print, but the painter has altered it to heighten the impact of Christ’s seminude body, which is presented as the focus of prayer and meditation. The artist’s signature, conspicuously inscribed on the tomb, also signals his devotion.

Artwork Details

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Provenance

Title: The Entombment of Christ
Artist: Juan Rodríguez Juárez (Mexican, 1675–1728)
Date: ca. 1702
Culture: Mexican
Medium: Oil and gold on copper
Dimensions: 10 3/16 × 7 3/4 in. (25.9 × 19.7 cm)
Framed: 17 3/4 × 15 3/4 × 1 1/2 in. (45.1 × 40 × 3.8 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, 2013 Benefit Fund, 2014
Object Number: 2014.269
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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