# Christ Crowned with Thorns

- By: Gerard van Honthorst (Utrecht, 1592–1656)
- Date: c. 1622
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: outer size: weight 55 kg
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the Stichting Jubileumfonds Rijksmuseum and the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-4837--9c89ad27853218f13af2effaf52cd6ea)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/vfPtB/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.