# Christ and the Repentant Sinners

- By: Peter Paul Rubens
- Date: 1617
- Classification: Painting
- Credit line: This user has uploaded 226 quality images to Wikimedia Commons. Self-portrait - Vincent van Gogh
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_and_the_Repentant_Sinners_-_Peter_Paul_Rubens.jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Christ_and_the_Repentant_Sinners_-_Peter_Paul_Rubens.jpg/1920px-Christ_and_the_Repentant_Sinners_-_Peter_Paul_Rubens.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The painting depicts the scenes of Luke 23:26-28, "And as they led him away they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross that he might bear it after Jesus. And there followed him a great company of people and of women which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning ubto them said "Daughters of Jerusalem weep not for me but weep for yourselves and for your children". The Devon topographer Rev. John Swete reported in his journal of 1797 that the painting had been purchased "abroad" by Mr Trefusis, later Baron Clinton, and that its owner had himself rescued it from a devastating fire at his residence of Heanton Satchville, Petrockstowe, Devon. Whilst still homeless he had loaned it for safekeeping to his neighbour John Inglett Fortescue Esq., at Buckland Filleigh, and it was displayed in the guest bedroom when Rev. Swete stayed the night. Swete wrote of it as follows: "At night as he introduced me to my bedchamber I observed what I thought a remarkable fine painting standing against the wall, and the next morning about six, the sun shining in at the windows, I drew back the curtains of the bed and contemplated it with…