Gerard van Honthorst

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Gerard van Honthorst - Christ Crowned with Thorns

Gerard van Honthorst

Christ Crowned with Thorns

c. 1622
192.4 x 221.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Judson & Ekkart 60

Collection catalogues
Jonathan Bikker (ed.), Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2007, plate 134

Literature
Bernd Ebert and Liesbeth M. Helmus (eds.), Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe, Munich, 2018, fig. 34

Exhibitions

2006 Rembrandt Caravaggio, Nr. 3

Iconclass

73D352 The crowning with thorns: soldiers with sticks place a thorny crown on Christ's head and give him a reed (Matthew 27:27-31; Mark 15:16-20; John 19:2-3)

External links

RKD 122969
Rijksmuseum Accession number SK-A-4837

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