Anselm Feuerbach
(1829-1880)
Pietà,
1863
Material / Technology / Carrier
Öl auf Leinwand
Dimensions of the object
136,2 x 269,5 cm
Displayed
Not on display
Acquisition
1863 durch Adolf Friedrich Graf von Schack erworben
Stock
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Citation
Anselm Feuerbach, Pietà, 1863, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/QKGBAnnLBb (Last updated on 09.12.2025)
Feuerbach worked for more than three years on this ambitious composition featuring life-size figures. Instead of illustrating a specific moment in Christ’s Passion as described in the gospels, he chose to fashion an emotionally compelling image of a mother mourning her dead son from a combination of pictorial elements associated with the Lamentation, the Entombment and the Holy Women at the Sepulchre.
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