Pietà is an oil painting on canvas by French artist Hippolyte Flandrin, created c. 1842.

[1] Flandrin was a devout Roman Catholic and dedicated a large part of his work to religiously inspired painting.

This depiction of large dimensions of the dead Jesus in the tomb is rather unusual and original for his time.

[2] Jesus appears totally naked in the tomb, lying in a white shroud, with the background of a desertic and enigmatic landscape.

It has been also claimed that the painting questions the traditional Christian belief in Jesus's resurrection, which seems unlikely because Flandrin was a devout Catholic.