Drawing in black and red chalk of a robed figure standing at center before a crowd of onlookers in an interior.

Christ before Pilate

A drawing in black chalk with red and white highlights shows a standing robed figure at center, with a crowd of onlookers pressed around him on both sides. Figures are rendered in soft smudged tones, with stylus incising visible in the background architecture.

Artist: Pontormo, (Jacopo Carrucci)
Date: 1522/23
Medium: Black chalk, with stumping, and traces of red chalk, heightened with traces of white chalk, over stylus incising, on cream laid paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 1641 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1523).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Anne Searle (Meers) Bent, The Regenstein Foundation, and Dr. William D. Shorey

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