The Pietà: the Virgin embraces the body of Christ. Gouache.

Date:
[19--]
Reference:
3025730i
Part of:
Adamson Collection
  • Pictures

About this work

Description

The abbey at Königsfelden in Switzerland was converted into a mental hospital, and the present work was painted in a mental hospital (Netherne Hospital)

Publication/Creation

[Netherne, Surrey], [19--]

Physical description

1 painting : gouache ; sheet 30.8 x 12.8 cm

Contributors

Lettering

Descent from the Cross. Swiss stained glass of the 14th century from the church of Koenigsfelden

Notes

This work is untitled, the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Creator/production credits

Executed at Netherne Hospital in Surrey. The painter expressed a preference that works by the same painter in a different genre should be anonymous. No such preference is known to have been expressed for the present work, or for others in the same genre, but the name of the painter has been withheld from this catalogue in the absence of an expressed wish to the contrary

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3025730i

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores

Permanent link