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The Deposition of Christ with an Angel and a Cherub

Maker (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
Head of a Cherub
Louis Claude Vassé
1775
Object number: 2012.28
Deposition of Christ
Unknown, German, 17th Century
17th century
Object number: 2007.17.10
Photography © 2014 Fredrik Nilsen
John Gregory
1923-1925
Object number: 2004.25
Joseph Nollekens
Charles Grignion the elder
n.d.
Object number: 59.55.624
Still
Alexander Fraser (the elder)
n.d.
Object number: 59.55.535
Going to Church; Unfinished
David Cox, the elder
n.d.
Object number: 59.55.335
Paris; Rue Vivienne
David Cox, the elder
1829
Object number: 59.55.351
Writing Desk
André-Charles Boulle the elder
1700-1705, with later alterations
Object number: 25.12
Portrait of a Woman
Robert Peake the Elder
1615
Object number: 2022.12
Cherub
William Stanton
1660-1675
Object number: 69.12
Nymph and Faun with Cherubs
Thomas Rowlandson
n.d.
Object number: Sessler43B