diff --git a/app/views/projects/blob/_image.html.haml b/app/views/projects/blob/_image.html.haml
index 6955b7086b99f304eaf64509255a33a39cb7904c..113dba5d83264714895175c54cf9088364d93258 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/blob/_image.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/blob/_image.html.haml
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 .file-content.image_file
   - if blob_svg?(blob)
-    - # We need to scrub SVG but we cannot do so in the RawController
+    - # We need to scrub SVG but we cannot do so in the RawController: it would
+    - # be wrong/strange if RawController modified the data.
     - blob.load_all_data!(@repository)
     - blob = sanitize_svg(blob)
-    %img{ src: "data:#{blob.mime_type};base64,#{Base64.encode64(blob.data)}"}
+    %img{src: "data:#{blob.mime_type};base64,#{Base64.encode64(blob.data)}"}
   - else
-    %img{ src: namespace_project_raw_path(@project.namespace, @project, @id)}
+    %img{src: namespace_project_raw_path(@project.namespace, @project, @id)}
diff --git a/app/views/projects/diffs/_image.html.haml b/app/views/projects/diffs/_image.html.haml
index e3699c6cab41705bc5104423b0de0b3665940136..752e92e2e6bd4c97aeaa40b67b61b70afe7dd677 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/diffs/_image.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/diffs/_image.html.haml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   .image
     %span.wrap
       .frame{class: image_diff_class(diff)}
-        %img{src: file_raw_path}
+        %img{src: diff.deleted_file ? old_file_raw_path : file_raw_path}
       %p.image-info= "#{number_to_human_size file.size}"
 - else
   .image