The Deposition of Christ with an Angel and a Cherub

Maker Giuseppe Mazzuoli (Italian, 1644 - 1725)

ClassificationsSCULPTURE

Dateca. 1700

Mediumterra cotta

Dimensions14 3/8 x 18 5/16 in. (36.5 x 46.5 cm.)

InscribedInscribed in lower left of recto etched into the clay: Ioseph Maz S.F.D.

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Edward W. and Julia B. Bodman Collection, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cummings, Donald E. and Ruth B. Evans, Herbert O. Knecht, Mrs. Malcolm McNaghten, Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Moseley, Kate Fowler Merle-Smith, Florence M. Quinn, Kate Van Nuys Page, Bequest of Virginia Steele Scott, and Mrs. Douglas Wright, Jr., purchased by exchange, 2012.

Label TextAngels mourn the dead Christ, whose body gracefully drapes across the foreground. The artist has skillfully rendered the figure’s beautiful torso and fine-featured face and has handled the clay—incising details of the background landscape and more fully modeling the bodies and drapery—to create a surprising sense of depth in this shallow relief. He signed his name in English “Joseph Mazz[uoli]” perhaps for an English client.

Status

On view

Object number2012.27