- 408
After Anton Raphael Mengs
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description
- The Deposition of Christ
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Collection of Don Juan Nepomucè Font i Sangrà;
By family descent to his niece Doña Ana Maria de Ros i Font;
Acquired by Ilustrísimo Señor Don Antonio d’Ortodó i Comas in June 1939;
By direct family descent to the present owner.
By family descent to his niece Doña Ana Maria de Ros i Font;
Acquired by Ilustrísimo Señor Don Antonio d’Ortodó i Comas in June 1939;
By direct family descent to the present owner.
Catalogue Note
This painting is a copy after Anton Raphael Mengs' Deposition, in the Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid (Palacio Real de Pedralbes, Barcelona).1 It repeats the lower half of the composition, omitting the additional panel of the Madrid painting, which depicts God the father and the Holy Spirit with two angels. An autograph version of the lower section of the picture is held in St John's College Chapel, Cambridge.2
1. See S. Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs 1728-1779, Munich 1999, pp. 99-104.
2. Ibid., pp. 98-99.