Descent from the Cross, 17th century

  • Flemish

Pen and brown ink and gray wash accentuated with brush and black ink on discolored laid paper

  • Sheet: 11 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (30.2 × 19.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund

34.118

Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower center, verso of mount: N. 47 Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner, verso of mount: 0.77

E. Parsons & Sons [cat. 46, no. 263 (as Van Dyck)] (London, England)

1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Scheyer, Ernst. Drawings and Miniatures from the XII to the XX Century. Detroit, 1936, no. 75. [as by Jordaens] Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 121, no. 61 (ill.).

Flemish, Descent from the Cross, 17th century, pen and brown ink and gray wash accentuated with brush and black ink on discolored laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Octavia W. Bates Fund, 34.118.