Art, literature & history
The Corpse (Study for The Dead Christ)
1893
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black chalk on buff paper, laid down
- Dimensions
- overall: 27.7 x 48.9 cm (10 7/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2003.32.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Félix Vallotton. The Corpse (Study for The Dead Christ). Félix Vallotton; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F%C3%A9lix_Vallotton,_The_Corpse_(Study_for_The_Dead_Christ),_1893,_NGA_127217.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Corpse (Study for The Dead Christ) — Félix Vallotton. 1893.
Medium: black chalk on buff paper, laid down.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 27.7 x 48.9 cm (10 7/8 x 19 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2003.32.1. Gift of Joan and David Maxwell.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.