Valentin de Boulogne lived in Rome and modelled his works on Caravaggio. This painting is his response to a representation of the Italian artist’s ‘Flagellation of Christ’. Valentin presents the viewer with Christ’s suffering in a particularly moving way through the sensitive rendition of Christ’s facial features and his vulnerable body at the mercy of his torturers. X-rays of the painting have revealed a portrait of a cardinal that was later painted over and who might have commissioned the picture.
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München
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Valentin de Boulogne,
Dornenkrönung und Verspottung Christi, um 1627/28,
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/Dn4ZR224aK (Last updated on 29.06.2022)
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