The Dead Christ supported by an angel

1582

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: Sheet: 17 11/16 × 12 1/8 in. (45 × 30.8 cm)
Collection no.: 56.570.6
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giuseppe Scolari. The Dead Christ supported by an angel. Giuseppe Scolari; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Dead Christ supported by an angel — Giuseppe Scolari. 1582.

Medium: Woodcut. Dimensions: Sheet: 17 11/16 × 12 1/8 in. (45 × 30.8 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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