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Charles Le Brun
The Descent from the Crosslate 1640s

Not on view
Oil painting of the descent from the cross, with a limp pale figure being lowered by multiple figures amid stormy skies, a rearing black horse, and dramatically lit figures in red and blue robes

Charles Le Brun, The Descent from the Cross, late 1640s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph B. Gould Foundation, Cary Grant and Fred Maxwell by exchange, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Charles Le Brun
France, Paris, 1619-1690
Title
The Descent from the Cross
Date Made
late 1640s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 29 1/2 × 24 7/16 in. (75 × 62 cm) Frame: 38 1/2 × 33 × 4 in. (97.79 × 83.82 × 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph B. Gould Foundation, Cary Grant and Fred Maxwell by exchange
Accession Number
M.2004.239
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture