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Painting of a nude dead man on a white cloth, held by a young woman, with a bearded man and a veiled woman bending over him and a hillside landscape behind.

The Entombment

A pale, nude male body lies diagonally across a white cloth in the foreground, supported by a kneeling young woman while a bearded older man and a veiled woman in dark blue bend over him. An older woman at right and a hillside landscape under a dusky sky complete the scene, painted in oil.

Artist
atelier van Adriaen van der Werff
Date
1696
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3183 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1696.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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