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Christ Crowned with Thorns
Also titled De doornenkroning van Jezus
Gerard van Honthorst (Utrecht, 1592–1656)
c. 1622
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: weight 55 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
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.
