1700 / 1701, Madrid
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1700 / 1701, Madrid
- Identifier
- 2016.482
- Transfer of custody
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Acquisition
- Purchase, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, Álvaro Saieh Bendeck and Alejandro Santo Domingo Gifts, and Mary Trumbull Adams Fund; Edward J. Gallagher Jr. Bequest, in memory of his father, Edward Joseph Gallagher, his mother, Ann Hay Gallagher, and his son, Edward Joseph Gallagher III; The Bernard and Audrey Aronson Charitable Trust Gift, in memory of her beloved husband, Bernard Aronson; Anonymous Gift and Louis V. Bell Fund, 2016
- Collection
- Technique
- Embroidery 90%
- Embroidery 99%
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- Embroidery 90%
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- Embroidery 70%
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- Depiction
- Floral motif 55%
- Floral motif 65%
- Floral motif 50%
- Floral motif 66%
- Floral motif 53%
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- Floral motif 45%
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- Floral motif 46%
- Floral motif 40%
- Floral motif 51%
- Floral motif 66%
- Floral motif 53%
- Floral motif 41%
- Vegetal motif 78%
- Vegetal motif 41%
- Vegetal motif 52%
- Vegetal motif 37%
- Vegetal motif 44%
- Vegetal motif 49%
- Vegetal motif 48%
- Floral motif 55%
- Production time
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Description
The Entombment is one of the two “jewel-like sculptures” Luisa Roldán gave to the newly installed King Philip V of Spain in 1701, petitioning him to appoint her sculptor to the royal court. In the previous decade she had pioneered a genre of sculpture—powerfully conceived and exquisitely modelled and painted figural groups, made on a deliberately intimate scale—of which this is perhaps the finest. The emotive expressions of the six figures surrounding the body of Christ as he is laid to rest run the gamut from angry disbelief and empty grief, to tender love and sympathy. The Entombment may have been placed in a convent or monastery affiliated with the royal family, or in the family’s private rooms or chapels. In whichever context, it would have inspired meditative devotion, encouraging the viewer to identify with the witnesses to Christ’s Passion.
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