A RARE RELIGOUS SUBJECT GRISAILLE PLATE

CIRCA 1740

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A RARE RELIGOUS SUBJECT GRISAILLE PLATE
Circa 1740
Finely painted with the descent from the Cross showing the body of Christ carried by his supporters toward an open tomb at the right, the two thieves still on their crosses with another tomb behind them and a European village visible on the distant shore, all within a bianco-sopra-bianco border of thorny rose boughs
8 7/8in. (22.5cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Hervouet and Bruneau, op. cit., p. 267 illustrate an identical plate and call it "one of the rarest subjects of this [religous] chapter", also noting some of the oddities of the scene as rendered here, like the four crosses and the obelisk. They could also have cited the strangely blissful smiles given the main figures on this sad and solemn occasion

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