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Christ Crowned with Thorns
Before Christ’s trial, Roman soldiers placed a plaited crown of thorns on his head, dressed him in a cloak and mocked him. After all, was he not the ‘King of the Jews’? The scene is dramatically illuminated by a torch, held by the boy at the left. Honthorst probably made this painting for a clandestine Catholic church (schuilkerk) in Amsterdam.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/73D352
- http://iconclass.org/73D353
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/73D352
- http://iconclass.org/73D353
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1622
- 1622
Place-Time
- first quarter 17th century
Provenance
- ? Commissioned by or for the church ‘Het Stadhuis van Hoorn’, later the Dominicuskerk, Amsterdam;{Schillemans 1992, pp. 46-47; Schillemans 1995, p. 67} ? first mentioned in the Dominicuskerk, 1765;{Wagenaar II, 1765, p. 211: ‘Boven, in ’t midden der Kerke, staat een ruimte en lugtige Koepel, tegen welke, eene bespotting van Christus geschilderd is.’} on loan to the museum from the Dominicuskerk, 1887-99 (inv. no. SK-C-479);{RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 167, no. 154 (March 1887);{RANH, ARS, Kop, inv. 289, p. 134, no. 294 (8 April 1887).} purchased from the Dominicuskerk by the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, 1986
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.collect.8757
- SK-A-4837
Extent
- height 192.4 cm
- width 221.5 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1622
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:52.329Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:10.799Z