Anthony van Dyck

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Anthony van Dyck

Christ Crowned with Thorns

c. 1618-20
225 x 197 cm
Oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

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Studies:

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Study for Christ Crowned with Thorns
c. 1618-20

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Study for the Figure of Christ
c. 1618-20

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Study for an Arm and Hand Grasping a Staff
c. 1618-20

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Kneeling Man, Seen from the Back
c. 1618-20

Anthony van Dyck
Christ Crowned with Thorns
c. 1618-20

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Barnes I.23

Collection catalogues
Santiago Alcolea Blanch, The Prado Museum, Barcelona, 2008, fig. 227

Exhibitions

2012 The Young Van Dyck, Nr. 55

Provenance

Peter Paul Rubens, Antwerp (his estate, 1640)
bought from his estate, between 1640 and 1645, by Philips IV of Spain
Royal Palace (Alcázar), Madrid
transferred to the Escorial, where it was present as early as 1656
transferred to the Museum in 1839
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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)

Other works by Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of Anna Wake
1628

The Countess of Castlehaven
c. 1635-38

The apostle Simon

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Achilles Discovered by Ulysses and Diomedes
c. 1617-18