# Pietà de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon \(detail\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CHARONTON, Enguerrand]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Tempera on wood ## Commentary Pietà de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon \(detail\) c. 1460 Tempera on wood Musée du Louvre, Paris The detail shows the head of Christ. The whole tragedy of this picture is concentrated in the figure of Christ. The beard and moustache are dark, the lips half open, the eyes closed; and the dead head compels the spectator's attention through its very poignancy. ## Related artworks - [Missal of Jean des Martins]() - [Pietà de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon \(detail\)]() - [Pietà de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon]() - [The Coronation of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [The Coronation of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [The Coronation of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [The Coronation of the Virgin]() - [The Virgin of Mercy]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()