Standing wooden folk sculpture of a pale, jointed male figure with a bearded face, red wound marks, and a patterned loincloth, against gray.

Christ, wooden articulated figure by José Benito Ortega

A carved and painted wooden figure of a jointed male body stands frontally against a gray background. The pale figure has a bearded face, red painted lines suggesting wounds on the torso and limbs, and a patterned cloth loincloth with red roundels. Its arms hang at its sides.

Artist: José Benito Ortega
Date: 1880–1907
Medium: Wood, fabric, gesso, and paint
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2247 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1907).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Simeon B. Williams Fund

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