Pilate Washing His Hands
Pilate, in a dark robe and blue cap, rests his hands in a basin on a pedestal table while an attendant watches behind him. A reclining armored figure lies at lower right, and a crowd gathers in the shadowed arcade at left.
Look closer: A crowd of onlookers is half lost in the shadows of the left background.
- Artist
- Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)
- Date
- 1663
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 3438 × 3842 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1663).
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Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Bequest of Helena W. Charlton, by exchange, Gwynne Andrews, Marquand, Rogers, Victor Wilbour Memorial, and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds, and funds given or bequeathed by friends of the Museum, 1978