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Christ on the Cross (David)

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Created
  
1782

Genre
  
Christian art

Period
  
Neoclassicism

Christ on the Cross (David)

Artists
  
Jacques-Louis David, Gerard David

Jacques-Louis David artwork
  
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Christ on the Cross is a 1782 painting by Jacques-Louis David. It was commissioned by marshal Louis de Noailles and his wife Catherine de Cossé-Brissac for their family chapel in the église des Capucins in Paris. One of David's few religious works, it is now in the église Saint-Vincent in Mâcon.

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