Christ at the Sea of Galilee
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Two Gospels share the frame. Christ stands on the shore, as John has it, and the boat carries the miraculous draught of fishes; but the water is Matthew's raging sea, and Peter is probably in it. Peter Lukehart, in the Gallery's systematic catalogue, reads it as a conflation of the two. Washington's titles record the difficulty: Christ Calling Saint Peter in 1941, Christ at the Sea of Galilee now.
Howard Oakley finds nothing like this water in any other painting of the story: spume everywhere, Peter sinking, about to be caught.
Sources: Peter Lukehart, 'Alessandro Magnasco', in Diane De Grazia and Eric Garberson, Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, Washington, 1996), pp. 177-188; read as the author's upload. · Howard Oakley, 'The Story in Paintings: Alessandro Magnasco, a maverick', The Eclectic Light Company, 10 April 2016. · National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'Christ at the Sea of Galilee', bibliography; re-read 2026-09-01. · Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Kress Collection record, 'Christ at the Sea of Galilee', K1221. · National Gallery of Art, artist page, Alessandro Magnasco. · John 21:4-8 and Matthew 14:29-31, Douay-Rheims (Challoner).
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 19,704 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.