The Flagellation of Christ

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Peter Paul Rubens (after)
,
Anonieme meester (draftsmen (artists))

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Copy after the oil sketch by Rubens (inv. 1919-Z), which is also kept in the MSK Gent, a modello for the great Flagellation (1614) in Saint Paul's Church in Antwerp. The importance of the drawing lies in the fact that the depiction to the right is more complete than that of the oil sketch. According to J. Held (1980), this…
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Copy after the oil sketch by Rubens (inv. 1919-Z), which is also kept in the MSK Gent, a modello for the great Flagellation (1614) in Saint Paul's Church in Antwerp. The importance of the drawing lies in the fact that the depiction to the right is more complete than that of the oil sketch. According to J. Held (1980), this suggests that Rubens's modello was originally larger, but was later narrowed down, perhaps to bring the representation into line with the large painting.
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More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Peter Paul Rubens VIAF RKD Wikidata, Anonieme meester
Types ink drawing AAT, chalk drawings AAT, lavis (technique)
Category drawings (visual works) AAT
Materials black chalk AAT, paper
Dimensions 98 x 145 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 1950-W-23
Description
Subjects religious symbolism AAT, figures (representations) , animal paintings
Tags New Testament Iconclass, Christ Iconclass, Passion of Christ Iconclass, tortures of Christ Iconclass, flagellation by soldiers, Christ usually tied to a column (Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; John 19:1) Iconclass, Christ with wounds caused by scourging Iconclass, instruments of torture, execution or punishment (WHIP) Iconclass, column (of the flagellation) ~ instruments of the Passion Iconclass, torture Iconclass, corporal punishment in public Iconclass, dog Iconclass, male sex; man Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass, drawing, sketch Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1950-W-23
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/3843/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:1950-W-23
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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