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Christ in the Garden of Olives

A work made of black chalk, brush and gray wash, and pen and brown ink, heightened with white chalk, with traces of graphite, on gray-brown laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer.
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  • A work made of black chalk, brush and gray wash, and pen and brown ink, heightened with white chalk, with traces of graphite, on gray-brown laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer.

Date:

1615/35

Artist:

Gerrit van Honthorst
Dutch, 1592–1656

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Gerrit van Honthorst

Title

Christ in the Garden of Olives

Place

Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)

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1615–1635

Medium

Black chalk, brush and gray wash, and pen and brown ink, heightened with white chalk, with traces of graphite, on gray-brown laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer

Inscriptions

Inscribed lower left, in graphite: "no 44"

Dimensions

31.2 × 23.3 cm (12 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Margaret Day Blake Fund

Reference Number

2015.9

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