Mourning Over the Dead Christ
date: label: Date
content: 1820-1850
name: label: Artist
content: Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: The upper part of Christ's body leans against the seated and evidently fainting Virgin who is supported by St. John. The kneeling St. Mary Magdalene leans downward to kiss the feet. Three more figures are at left. The tomb is in the left rear. Further in the rear rises a pilaster with a crowned head. A man washes a donkey, in the central distance. Golgatha is shown is the right distance. Framing line.
place: label: made in
content: Rome, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-88-7348
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Charcoal, pen and ink, brush and dark brown wash on paper
label: Dimensions
content: 19.3 × 27.1 cm (7 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.)