Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Also titled Christus en de overspelige vrouw
Luca Giordano (Naples, 1632–ca.)
1653
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 360 mm x width 501 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Hypocritically, Pharisees ask Christ’s opinion of an adulterous woman. He writes his answer on the floor: ‘Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.’ Giordano drew their anguished faces with great empathy. Because of his delicate technique, the nuances are only visible in the earliest impressions, when they were still crisply etched in the plate. Etching was a new medium for the young artist.
