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Pietà (after Delacroix)
1889 · oil on canvas · Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
For Our Lady of Sorrows · 15 September
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image 8×9.7 in on a 8×10 in sheet
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All editionsAbout this painting
The Virgin's arms are open over the body, not holding it but offering it, and behind her white veil a band of yellow light lies low in a sky of blue strokes, the mouth of the tomb dark on either side. Van Gogh made the picture at Saint-Rémy in September 1889 from a lithograph of Delacroix's Pietà, and the museum keeps the story in his own words: the print, with other sheets, 'had fallen into some oil and paint and got spoiled. I was sad about it,' and so he painted it. The lithograph survives, stain and all. He kept Delacroix's theme and composition and gave it his own colour, the blue mantle, the red beard, the greens of the dead flesh, in strokes that curve the whole picture round the two figures. The museum calls it a variation rather than a copy. The sorrow is the Virgin's. The colour is his.
Sources: Van Gogh Museum, 'Pietà (after Delacroix)', s0168V1962; read 2026-10-15. · Wikimedia Commons file page; sizes read 2026-10-15.
And taking him down, he wrapped him in fine linen and laid him in a sepulchre that was hewed in stone, wherein never yet any man had been laid.
Luke 23:53 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)