Masters/Carl Bloch/Christ on the Cross
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In 1884 Bloch returned to the cross as a printmaker. The plate is spare: the cross nearly fills the height, and the sky is built from long horizontal strokes.
At the left a disciple sits with his hand at his mouth. At the right, women bend over Mary on the ground. Far off at the right edge, tiny figures carry a ladder.
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Other masters in room 62, It Is Finished:
Carl Bloch
Christ on the Cross, 1865–1879
Oil on copper
Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle
One of the 23 King's Oratory paintings
Mihály Munkácsy
Golgotha, 1884
Oil on canvas
Déri Museum, Debrecen
James Tissot
What Our Lord Saw from the Cross, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.299)
James Tissot
It Is Finished, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.304)
SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark. SMK holds The Daughter of Jairus (1863) and a large collection of Bloch's etchings and drawings in its print collection. Its open-collection website shows each one free.
Google MapsGoogle EarthImage: SMK Open, public domain. The work itself is in the public domain.
