Francisco de Goya

The Burial of Christ (El Entierro de Cristo)

Clasificación
The Burial of Christ (El Entierro de Cristo)
Datos Generales
Cronología
Ca. 1771 - 1772
Ubicación
Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid, Spain
Dimensiones
155 x 112 cm
Técnica y soporte
Oil mural painting transferred to canvas
Reconocimiento de la autoría de Goya
Attributed work
Titular
Lázaro Galdiano Foundation
Ficha: realización/revisión
06 Oct 2010 / 13 Jun 2023
Inventario
(2003)
Otros títulos:
Descent from the Cross (Descendimiento)
Historia

The painting, which had been transferred to canvas, was acquired by José Lázaro Galdiano in the same year and features in the inventory of the Lázaro Galdiano Museum drawn up in 1949-50 by Emilio Camps Cazorla.

For further information see The Dream of Saint Joseph.

Análisis artístico

The scene takes place in the entrance to a cave and features two angels who have taken Christ down from the cross and are holding his body on the shroud. In the lower left-hand section of the painting we can see Mary Magdalene on her knees anointing Christ's feet. In the middle ground, the sorrowful Virgin holds her head in her hand and Saint John prays, his eyes turned heavenwards. In the lower right-hand corner there is a basket and cloth, and next to them the sign that had been fixed to the cross and the nails used in the crucifixion.

The depiction of the body of Christ being buried by angels as opposed to by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus has a historical tradition in Italian painting of the 16th century.

The composition is copied with some variations from an original work by the French painter Simón Vouet (1590-1649) produced for Dominique Seguiré, Grand Almoner to the King and Bishop of Meaux, to decorate the chapel of his Bishop's Palace. Goya's work is based on a 1641 print by Pierre Daret.

For further information see The Dream of Saint Joseph.

Conservación

The work underwent restoration work in 1960; however, it was not correctly treated during this process and had to be restored once more in 2003 due to delamination. Its current state is so fragile that it is considered inadvisable to move the work.

Exposiciones
  • Exposición de obras de Goya y de objetos que recuerdan las manufacturas artísticas de su época
    Museo de Zaragoza
    Zaragoza
    1928
    organized by la Real Academia de Nobles y Bellas Artes de San Luis in collaboration with the Junta del Patronato del Museo Provincial. April 1928
Bibliografía
  • ARCO, Ricardo del
    Pinturas de Goya (inéditas) en el palacio de los condes de Sobradiel de Zaragoza
    Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones
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    1915
    pp.124-131
  • SÁNCHEZ CANTÓN. Francisco Javier
    Goya pintor religioso. (Precedentes italianos y franceses)
    Revista de Ideas Estéticas
    Bibliography']['number
    Madrid
    1946
    pp. 277-306
  • CAMÓN AZNAR, José
    Cuadros de Goya en el Museo Lázaro,
    Seminario de Arte Aragonés
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    Zaragoza
    1952
    p. 3
  • MILICUA, José
    “Anotaciones al Goya joven”
    Paragone
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    1954
    pp. 5-28
  • SAMBRICIO, Valentín de (comisario)
    Les peintures de Goya dans la chapelle du palais des Comtes de Sobradiel à Saragosse
    Revue des Arts
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    París
    1954
    pp. 215-222
  • GASSIER, Pierre y WILSON, Juliet
    Vie et ouvre de Francisco de Goya
    Bibliography']['number
    ParísOffice du livre
    1970
    pp. 81, cat. 12
  • GUDIOL RICART, José
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    BarcelonaPolígrafa
    1970
    vol. I, p. 238, cat. 19
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    Goya en Aragón
    Bibliography']['number
    Editorial Everest
    1970
    p. 20
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    Goya en Zaragoza
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    ZaragozaAyuntamiento de Zaragoza
    1971
    pp. 37-46
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    Goya
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    1986
    pp. 5-9
  • MORALES Y MARÍN, José Luis
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    Diputación General de Aragón
    1990
    pp. 70 y ss.
  • MORALES Y MARÍN, José Luis
    Datos inéditos y precisiones iconográficas y estilísticas sobre las pinturas que decoraban el oratorio del palacio de los condes de Sobradiel en Zaragoza, originales de Francisco de Goya
    Archivo Español de Arte
    Bibliography']['number
    1990
    pp. 59-67
  • ANSÓN NAVARRO, Arturo
    Goya y Aragón. Familia, amistades y encargos artísticos
    col. Col. Mariano de Pano y Ruata
    Bibliography']['number
    ZaragozaCaja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada de Aragón
    1995
    pp. 94-98
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    Goya en la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano
    Bibliography']['number
    MadridFundación Lázaro Galdiano
    1999
    pp. 67-73, nº. 1
  • LOZANO LÓPEZ, Juan Carlos (comisario)
    Goya y el Palacio de Sobradiel
    Bibliography']['number
    ZaragozaGobierno de Aragón, Dpto. de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
    2008
    passim. (esp. pp. 240-243)
  • MENA MARQUÉS, Manuela B. et al.
    Goya y Zaragoza (1746-1775). Sus raíces aragonesas
    Bibliography']['number
    ZaragozaFundación Goya en Aragón, Ibercaja y Gobierno de Aragón
    2015
    pp. 63-66
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