The Entombment of Christ

A pen and brown ink drawing with brown wash on blue paper shows a semi-nude body being lowered on a shroud by several figures, with a kneeling woman at the lower center. Kneeling and reclining mourners in draped robes fill the foreground, and pale highlights enliven the composition.

Artist

Jacopo Negretti, called Palma Giovane

Date

1595/1600

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with gold metallic paint, on blue laid paper, laid down on thin tan laid paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2636 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection