Attributed to Sisto Badalocchio

Christ's body, taken down from the cross, is carried toward the tomb in its shroud by John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalene, Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, while the Virgin and the holy women gather at the left. The museum sees Raphael's Deposition behind the composition, a painting that hangs in the same gallery, and Caravaggesque touches in the evening light and the darkening tones.

Who painted it has never been settled. First recorded in 1833, it was later called Bolognese school, then Giovanni Lanfranco, then Antonio Carracci, the nephew of Annibale. In 1951 the British scholar Denis Mahon argued for Sisto Badalocchio, and the museum files it under him with attributed to, while Massimo Pirondini returned to Antonio Carracci in 2007.

Badalocchio came from Parma and trained with Annibale Carracci in Rome, alongside Lanfranco, a fellow native of Parma. In 1607 the two young men published a set of etchings after Raphael's frescoes in the Vatican Logge and dedicated it to Annibale. The canvas is dated to the first decade of the 1600s and is currently in storage.