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Christ before Pilate

Image credit: The Bowes Museum

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The inscriptions on the shields held by the figures in this painting refer to Christ's trial before Pilate. The figure of Christ, with his hands tied, crowned with thorns and robed only with the mantle with which his executioners staged his mock coronation as 'King of Israel', recalls the iconography of the Ecce Homo. It also announces the following episode in the Passion, when a despondent Pilate presents Christ to the crowd to demand their verdict.

This painting is a copy of one of several sixteenth-century Flemish prints that were printed in a number of European countries including France and Italy. This painting is likely to be a seventeenth-century Spanish work.

The Bowes Museum

Barnard Castle

Title

Christ before Pilate

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 157.5 x W 345.4 cm

Accession number

B.M.637

Acquisition method

bequeathed by the Founders, 1885

Work type

Painting

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The Bowes Museum

Barnard Castle, County Durham DL12 8NP England

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