This anatomical study of Christ's arms and legs shows Eugène Delacroix working through the physical structure of a Crucifixion composition, a subject he returned to several times over his career. Rather than a finished devotional image, it is a working drawing — the kind of preparatory study Delacroix relied on to ground his dramatic, emotionally charged religious paintings in convincing anatomy. Such studies reveal the rigorous draftsmanship underlying even his most fervent Romantic canvases.
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