The Dead Christ with Angels

The Dead Christ with Angels is an 1864 oil painting by French painter Édouard Manet.[1][2] It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[3]

Le Christ mort et les anges
English: The Dead Christ with Angels
ArtistÉdouard Manet
Year1864
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions179.4 cm × 149.9 cm (70 5/8 in × 59 in)
LocationThe Met, New York City

Background

The painting depicts the biblical story (John 20:12) of Mary Magdalene entering the tomb of Jesus and seeing two angels but finding Jesus' body missing.[1][4] Notably, Manet depicts the two angels with the body of the dead Jesus still visible.[5] The painting also depicts Jesus' spear wound on the wrong side of his body; this is a fact that Manet realized only after he had submitted the painting to the Salon.[3]

Manet also made etchings of the same subject, which are held by museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago and the Cleveland Museum of Art.[6][7]

The Dead Christ with Angels (1866–1867), etching and aquatint. Cleveland Museum of Art
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References
  1. "MoMA.org | Interactives | Exhibitions | 2006 | Manet and the Execution of Maximilian | The Dead Christ". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  2. Beeny, Emily A. (2013). "Christ and the Angels: Manet, the Morgue, and the Death of History Painting?". Representations. 122 (1): 51–82. doi:10.1525/rep.2013.122.1.51. ISSN 0734-6018. JSTOR 10.1525/rep.2013.122.1.51.
  3. "The Dead Christ with Angels". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  4. Sheppard, Jennifer M. (1981-01-01). "The Inscription in Manet's "The Dead Christ, with Angels"". Metropolitan Museum Journal. 16: 199–200. doi:10.2307/1512778. ISSN 0077-8958. JSTOR 1512778.
  5. Gurewich, Vladimir (1957). "Observations on the Iconography of the Wound in Christ's Side, with Special Reference to Its Position". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 20 (3/4): 358–362. doi:10.2307/750787. ISSN 0075-4390. JSTOR 750787.
  6. "Dead Christ with Angels". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
  7. Anonymous (2018-10-31). "The Dead Christ with Angels". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 2019-08-28.
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