Christ on the Cold Stone

• Christ Seated on a Stone Block (former title)
• Christ on the Cold Stone

SK-A-3569

Christus op de koude steen. Christus zittend op een bankje, doornenkroon op het hoofd. Links een brandende kaars. Kopie naar de bespotting van Christus door Honthorst uit ca. 1614 in het Gettymuseum in Malibu.

• painter: copy after Gerard van Honthorst
• painter: Georges de La Tour [rejected attribution]

after c. 1614

oil on canvas

• support: height 134.5 cm x width 99.3 cm
• outer size: depth 9 cm (support incl. frame)

• purchase 1948-12
• purchase 2015-08-11
• interne vervaardiging 1948-12
• interne vervaardiging 2015-08-11

Public domain

…; Prof. Fiorentini, Rome, 1947;{RMA Archive, Cassirer, P., letter 24 November 1947.} from whom, fl. 2,170, as Georges de la Tour, to the museum, through the mediation of G.J. Hoogewerff, 1948

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