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Pietà with Donors

ca. 1515
Not on view
The donors are Pons de Gontaut and his brother Armand, Bishop of Sarlat, in whose family funerary chapel this sculpture and the Entombment originally stood. Their coats of arms were held by the angels in the Entombment scene.

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  • Title: Pietà with Donors
  • Date: ca. 1515
  • Geography: Made in Biron, Dordogne, France
  • Culture: French
  • Medium: Limestone, traces of polychromy
  • Dimensions: Overall: 43 3/8 x 92 1/2 x 22 in. (110.2 x 235 x 55.9 cm)
  • Classification: Sculpture-Stone
  • Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916
  • Object Number: 16.31.1a–d
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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Cover Image for 93. Body Language: Educator's Introduction: Pietà with Donors

93. Body Language: Educator's Introduction: Pietà with Donors

Gallery 306

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