Rosso paints the "Deposition, " the most heart-wrenching scene in all of Christianity, as if it were something like ThomasHart Benton's "The History of Water" (1930).
Like the better-known ThomasHartBenton, Hartman depicts the smooth, sensual contours of her two figures and their saturnine cat, her minute pen strokes producing an array of subtle textures.