Artist: Gerard Van Honthorst (Gerrit Van Honthorst)
Date: 1614
Size: 135 x 99 cm
Technique: Oil On Canvas
The schematic treatment of the anatomy and chiaroscuro is the likely reason why the present painting was associated with Georges de La Tour in the past.8 A more accomplished version of the painting in Dordogne9 has also been attributed to De la Tour in the past.10 As Judson was first able to demonstrate, both versions show the figure of Christ from Honthorst’s Christ Crowned with Thorns in the J. Paul Getty Museum (fig. a), which he convincingly dates to the artist’s Italian period, namely about 1614.11 A large candle has been added to both compositions as the source of the illumination of the figure. Sterling, who did not know the Getty picture, as it was acquired by the museum in 1990 and was only published for the first time in 1993, considered the Rijksmuseum painting to be a copy of the one in Dordogne.12 Although the ultimate source of the figure is now known, it remains more likely, on account of the inferior quality and inclusion of the candle, that this painting was copied from the version in Dordogne and not directly from the Getty painting. Sterling also suggested the Rijksmuseum painting could be a youthful work by Matthias Stom.13 Such an attribution, however, cannot be sustained. Jonathan Bikker, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 149.
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