Masters/Carl Bloch/Christ on the Cross
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Bloch paints the cross against a sky going dark, with a band of light still at the horizon. At its foot, the people who loved Jesus have collapsed. Mary has fainted into the arms of the women; a man in a red turban bends over her.
At the top of the cross hangs the board Pilate ordered, written in three languages. At the left edge, ladders lean against the sky, waiting.
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Other masters in room 62, It Is Finished:
Carl Bloch
Christ on the Cross, 1884
Etching and drypoint, 36 × 28.7 cm
SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark (KKS754)
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)
The King's Oratory, Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød, Denmark. The 23 paintings hang in the King's Oratory, next to the castle chapel. Frederiksborg says visitors can see them every day, all year.
Google MapsGoogle EarthImage: Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
