Art, literature & history
Descent from the Cross
1779
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 23.5 × 12.38 cm (9 1/4 × 4 7/8 in.) sheet: 32.39 × 23.18 cm (12 3/4 × 9 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2018.113.46
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Martin Johann Schmidt. Descent from the Cross. Martin Johann Schmidt; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Descent from the Cross — Martin Johann Schmidt. 1779.
Medium: etching and engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23.5 × 12.38 cm (9 1/4 × 4 7/8 in.) sheet: 32.39 × 23.18 cm (12 3/4 × 9 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2018.113.46. Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier.
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.