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A black line drawing depicts three figures: two leaning over a rectangular platform where another figure lies flat. The number 14 is centered below the figures.

Henri Matisse. Detail of The Stations of the Cross, Chapel of the Rosary, Vence. All copyright-protected works by Henri Matisse © 2025 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: © Musée Matisse Nice/François Fernandez

A black line drawing depicts three figures: two leaning over a rectangular platform where another figure lies flat. The number 14 is centered below the figures.

Station 14: Jesus is Laid in the Tomb

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Art Object Info

Henri Matisse

Medium:
Black enamel brushwork on ceramic panel
Date:
1951

Visual Description:

Station 14, the final Station depicted here, is positioned in the upper right corner of the mural. It is approximately three tiles high and five tiles wide. A series of quick, expressive black lines suggests a grouping: a figure standing on the left, one lying in the center, and a figure standing on the right. Together they represent Jesus and two mourners who lay his body in its tomb. A single horizontal line with a rectangle at its right end stretches atop a rectangular block, representing Jesus’ lifeless body after it has been removed from the cross. To its left and right are two figures depicted by a few arched lines that appear to lean inwards over the central figure with heads bent downward, in mourning or preparing the body for entombment.

 

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Station 14: Jesus is Laid in the Tomb

Henri Matisse
Date:
1951
Medium:
Black enamel brushwork on ceramic panel

Visual Description:

Station 14, the final Station depicted here, is positioned in the upper right corner of the mural. It is approximately three tiles high and five tiles wide. A series of quick, expressive black lines suggests a grouping: a figure standing on the left, one lying in the center, and a figure standing on the right. Together they represent Jesus and two mourners who lay his body in its tomb. A single horizontal line with a rectangle at its right end stretches atop a rectangular block, representing Jesus’ lifeless body after it has been removed from the cross. To its left and right are two figures depicted by a few arched lines that appear to lean inwards over the central figure with heads bent downward, in mourning or preparing the body for entombment.

 

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