Descent from the Cross, 1542

  • Pierre Reymond, French, 1532 - 1578

Enamel on copper

  • Unframed: 6 1/16 × 4 15/16 × 5/16 inches (15.4 × 12.5 × 0.8 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

21.175

Signed and dated: •P•R• 154Z

(F.M. Hackenbroch, Frankfurt, Germany)

1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lesley, E.P., Jr. Enamel, an Historic Survey to the Present Day. Cooper Union Museum, April 15-June 11, 1954, no. 92. Verdier, P. Catalogue of Painted Enamels of the Renaissance. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1967, p. 211. Renaissance Works of Art from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 26, 1982-January 2, 1983. "Family Art Game," Detroit Free Press (May 18, 1986): p. 24 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement]. Higgott, Suzanne, et al. Catalogue of Glass and Limoges Painted Enamels. The Wallace Collection, London, 2011, pp. 238-239.

Pierre Reymond, Descent from the Cross, 1542, enamel on copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.175.