Masters/Carl Bloch/Christ in Gethsemane
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This small plate, about the size of a postcard, marked Bloch’s return to etching in 1880. BYU’s Museum of Art calls it a work of “remarkable sophistication not achieved by previous Danish printmakers.”
It is the same embrace as the painting, but closer and quieter. Without color, the angel nearly vanishes into the light at the left, and Christ’s bowed head becomes the center of the plate.
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Other masters in room 58, Not My Will, but Thine:
Carl Bloch
Gethsemane, 1865–1879
Oil on copper
Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle
One of the 23 King's Oratory paintings
Heinrich Hofmann
Christ in Gethsemane, 1890
Oil on canvas
The Riverside Church, New York
Frans Schwartz
Agony in the Garden, 1898
Oil on canvas
Altarpiece, Nørresundby Church, Denmark
James Tissot
The Grotto of the Agony, 1886–1894
Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper
Brooklyn Museum, purchased by public subscription (00.159.231)
Harry Anderson
Jesus Praying in Gethsemane
Under copyright, so not shown here.
View it on the Gospel Media LibrarySMK, 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.
