Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
The mocking
Between the sentence and the road to Calvary the gospels place a scene in the guardroom: the soldiers dress the prisoner in a robe, put a reed in his hand, kneel in mock homage. It is the only episode of the Passion whose whole content is derision, and painting used it to bring the executioners forward as individuals rather than as a crowd.
Its place in the sequence
After the trial before Pilate and after the flagellation, before the carrying of the cross. Nine titles in this catalogue use the word mock, which puts the episode among the most frequently entered of the Passion here, close behind the crucifixion itself.
What the record holds
The catalogue names Edouard Manet, dates the canvas to 1865, and places it in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US. It measures 191 x 147 cm — upright, life-scale, the format of a public picture. The style tags are unusual for the subject: the record enters Realism, and also Surrealism, which sits oddly against a nineteenth-century date and is reproduced here as the record has it rather than corrected. The artist is entered as French, the subject as a group composition and as religious. The measured palette reads as red and yellow.
Sources
8 references- Édouard Manet — Wikipedia
Édouard Manet (UK: , US: ; French: [edwaʁ manɛ]; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism
- Manet, Edouard — Getty ULAN
French painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1832-1883
- Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers — Wikidata
description: painting by Édouard Manet; inception: 1865; dimensions: 1908 × 1483 cm; collection: Art Institute of Chicago
- artic.edu — record for "Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers"
Primary source record for this work (artic.edu).
- Jesus Insulted by the Soldiers — Wikipedia
Jesus Insulted by the Soldiers is an 1865 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, his last religious work. It is now in the Art Institute of Chicago, to which it was left in 1925 by James Deering, heir to the Deering Harvester Company (Int
- cartelfr.louvre.fr — reference for "Jesus Insulted by the Soldiers"
Authoritative source for this work (cartelfr.louvre.fr).
- Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers — Art Institute of Chicago (id 16499)
artist: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883); date: 1865; medium: Oil on canvas; dimensions: 190.8 × 148.3 cm (74 7/8 × 58 3/8 in.); Framed: 240.1 × 196.9 cm (94 1/2 × 77 1/2 in.); credit: Gift of James Deering; provenance: Estate of the artis
- Édouard Manet - Jesus Mocked by the Soldiers - Google Art Project — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
