Figures Carrying the Body of Christ (Study for the Baglioni Altarpiece of the Entombment; The Borghese Entombment)
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Artwork Details
- Title: Figures Carrying the Body of Christ (Study for the Baglioni Altarpiece of the Entombment; The Borghese Entombment)
- Artist: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
- Date: ca. 1506-7
- Medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk and stylus underdrawing, red chalk over stylus-incised compass and ruled construction, pricked horizontal and vertical axis lines,, stylus-incised construction, later framing lines in black ink, glued onto a secondary paper support
- Dimensions: 11 1/8 × 9 11/16 in. (28.2 × 24.6 cm)
Framed: 23 3/4 in. × 17 11/16 in. × 1 5/16 in. (60.4 × 45 × 3.3 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Presented by a Body of Subscribers in 1846 (WA1846.173)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints