El Greco

Christ Carrying the Cross

El Greco

Christ Carrying the Cross

c. 1577–87
105 x 79 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed on the cross, above Christ's left hand, in Greek: doménikos theotokópoulos epoíei (Domenikos Theotokopoulos made this)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Robert Lehman Collection

Literature

Charles Sterling, Maryan W. Ainsworth, Charles Talbot, Martha Wolff, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Jonathan Brown, John Hayes, The Robert Lehman Collection, New York, Princeton, 1998, nr. 37

Provenance

Javier de Quinto, conde de Quinto (died 1860), Madrid and Paris
condesa de Quinto, Paris, (sale catalogue, 1862 [no auction held], nr. 68 [?])
Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1818–1878), Pollok, Keir, and Cadder, Scotland
General Archibald Stirling
Lieutenant Colonel William Stirling
acquired by Robert Lehman, New York in 1953

Iconclass

73D41 Carrying of the cross: Christ bearing the cross, alone or with the help of others (e.g. Simon the Cyrenian)

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1975.1.145

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Christ Healing the Blind
c. 1570

The Adoration of the Shepherds

The Holy Trinity
1577-79

Saint Jerome as Scholar
c. 1610

Laocoön
c. 1610