# Descent from the Cross

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## Artwork

- Artist: [JOUVENET, Jean-Baptiste](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jouvenet-jean-baptiste-r627cd9723b80bf>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 424 x 312 cm

## Commentary

This bold and vigorous painting, with its magnificent harmony of warm colours, foreshadows the most beautiful of the nineteenth-century Romantic Paintings. Executed for the church of the Capuchins in the Place Louis -le-grande, Paris, it was donated to the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in 1756. During the French Revolution, it was acquired by the Louvre, as were all the other paintings which had belonged to the Académie.

## Related artworks

- [Apollo and the Chariot of the Sun](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jouvenet-jean-baptiste-r627cd9723b80bf/apollo-and-the-chariot-of-the-sun-r5f533891cdb2d8>)
- [Christ in the House of Simon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jouvenet-jean-baptiste-r627cd9723b80bf/christ-in-the-house-of-simon-r1a3829c529fa0e>)
- [Dr Raymond Finot](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jouvenet-jean-baptiste-r627cd9723b80bf/dr-raymond-finot-r4a6d671246e1bf>)
- [Magnificat](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jouvenet-jean-baptiste-r627cd9723b80bf/magnificat-r839817a7f803c9>)
- [Portrait of an Unknown Man](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jouvenet-jean-baptiste-r627cd9723b80bf/portrait-of-an-unknown-man-r314cf44d890b9c>)
- [The Education of the Virgin](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jouvenet-jean-baptiste-r627cd9723b80bf/the-education-of-the-virgin-r18e6a657585c59>)
- [The Miraculous Draught](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/jouvenet-jean-baptiste-r627cd9723b80bf/the-miraculous-draught-r233fb754a5361f>)
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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)