It was subsequently offered in 1816 to the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Lyon by Cardinal Joseph Fesch.

The painter chooses to represent the precise moment of the end of the agony of Christ, the tilted head seems to indicate his death.

Mary painted in the lower right is presented in agony, as if she shared the pain of her son's death.

On the left of the painting stands Mary Magdalen, from behind, startled by the scene, in a gesture of recoil and arms outstretched.

The faces as well as the light, which recall the painter's Italian training, reinforce all the theatricality and solemnity of the scene.