# The Entombment

**Sir Edward Burne-Jones** (British, 1833–1898)  
1879  
Green, blue, brown and touches of reddish bodycolor, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor)  
12 x 18-3/4 in. (30.5 x 47.6 cm)

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 63.200.3. [The museum's record](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/340952).

## About this work

Sir Edward Burne-Jones painted this in 1879, aged 46. It is now at The Met in New York.

### How it was made

- **Opaque watercolour.** Watercolour made opaque with white or chalk and laid in flat, even layers. Persian and Indian painters ground their colours from minerals, applied them with the finest brushes and burnished the finished page.

### [Sir Edward Burne-Jones](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/sir-edward-burne-jones)

British, 1833–1898; born in Birmingham; died in Fulham

## Facts

- Type: Drawings
- The artist was 46
- Real size: about 12 × 19 in (31 × 48 cm). The 16 × 20 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Subjects: Sadness, Women, Christ, Entombment
- Colour: grey
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3

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