Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John
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| Artist | Hendrick ter Brugghen |
| Year | 1625 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Subject | Crucifixion of Jesus |
| Dimensions | 154.9 cm × 102.2 cm (61.0 in × 40.2 in) |
| Condition | "The painting is well preserved. The gray color of Mary's cloak and the gray-green cast of the night sky suggest that these passages may contain a discolored smalt pigment." |
| Location | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
| Owner | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Accession | 56.228 |
| Website | http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/110000250 |
Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John by Hendrick ter Brugghen is an oil painting, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It was probably painted in about 1625 as an altarpiece for a Catholic schuilkerk, a "hidden church" or "church in the attic", in the Calvinist Dutch United Provinces, probably Utrecht. When discovered in a bombed out church in South Hackney, London in 1956, it was unknown, but by the time it appeared in Sotheby's salesroom in November of that year it was recognized as an important example of Utrecht Caravaggism. It was acquired by the museum in the sale.
Although the date is partly illegible, stylistically it comes closest to Ter Brugghen's Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene at the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, which is dated 1625. It was probably commissioned for a chapel or private church, although some contention has existed over whether this would have been Catholic or Protestant.
The posthumous inventory of Johannes de Renialme, for a sale of June 27, 1657, lists as no. 137 Een Christus aen 't cruys, van Van der Brugge, there valued at 150 guilders; possibly this painting. It served as an altarpiece in a side chapel of Christ Church, South Hackney, London, between about 1898 and 1956, when the church was demolished and the painting moved to the Church of St John-at-Hackney. The church sold the painting to Nigel Foxell of Oxford for £75. Foxell consigned the painting to auction at Sotheby's on 28 November 1956. It realised £15,000 (lot 115). Foxell donated the proceeds (minus Sotheby's 10% commission) to the Diocese of London.
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