Hand-painted in oil
About this Artwork
Simon of Cyrene, or not
Matthew, Mark and Luke all report that the soldiers compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, to carry the cross. John's account says Christ went out bearing it himself. The two versions produced two families of picture, and the difference is doctrinal as much as narrative: one shows the weight shared, the other shows it borne alone. A title that says only Christ Carrying the Cross does not settle which reading a given canvas follows.
Its place in the Passion
After the sentence and before Golgotha. In the devotional scheme of the Stations of the Cross, which fixed the road into numbered stops, this stretch supplies more stations than any other part of the story — the meeting with the mother, the falls, Veronica, the women of Jerusalem. Those stops are a devotional structure, not gospel text, and painting drew subjects from both.
The record
The catalogue gives Jacob Jordaens, 1660, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. At 240 by 175 centimetres this is an upright at altar scale, the largest of the four carrying-the-cross entries measured in this group. The style is entered as Baroque and the artist as Flemish. The measured palette reads as brown. The record holds no note on commission or provenance.
Sources
8 references- Jordaens, Jacob, the younger — Getty ULAN
Flemish painter, born 1625
- Jacob Jordaens — Wikipedia
Jacques "Jacob" Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and a designer of tapestries and prints. He was a prolific artist who created biblical, mythological, and allegorical compositions, genre scenes, la
- Jordaens, Jacob, the elder — Getty ULAN
Flemish painter, 1593-1678
- The carrying of the cross — Wikidata
description: painting by Jacob (I) Jordaens; inception: 1657-01-01; dimensions: 239 × 174.5 cm; collection: Rijksmuseum
- europeana.eu — record for "The carrying of the cross"
Primary source record for this work (europeana.eu).
- rijksmuseum.nl — record for "The carrying of the cross"
Primary source record for this work (rijksmuseum.nl).
- Christ Carrying the Cross (El Greco, Madrid) — Wikipedia
Christ Carrying the Cross is a 1597–1600 painting by El Greco, belonging to the end of his life in Toledo. It is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. == See also == List of works by El Greco == Bibliography (in Spanish) == ÁLVAREZ LOPERA,
- Christ Carrying the Cross from the workshop of Jacob Jordaens (I) — Wikimedia Commons
High-resolution image of the work, hosted on Wikimedia Commons.
