The Crucifixion of Christ

A pen and brown wash drawing on blue paper shows Christ crucified at center, arms outstretched, with a radiant halo above the cross. Two thieves hang on crosses at left and right edges, while mourners gather at the base and a standing figure in a long robe gestures upward on the right, with soldiers behind.

Look closer: A soldier with a spear and a crowd of onlookers are faintly visible behind the figures at the right edge.

Artist

Hans Speckaert

Date

before 1577

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on blue paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2577 × 3892 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Rogers and Harris Brisbane Dick Funds, Gifts of Ernest Shapiro and family, Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, and Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 1999