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Christ Carrying the Cross
early 1620s · oil on copper · National Gallery of Art, Washington
For Good Friday
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Christ is down on one knee under the Cross, and the road runs out of a tomb. The procession comes through the arched doorway of a great round ruin, and the ruin is real: the National Gallery of Art identifies it as the Tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Appian Way. Arthur Wheelock reads the choice as deliberate, the tomb's association with death used to sharpen the story, the procession passing through it on the way to Golgotha just as darkness starts to settle over the land. The NGA describes Christ looking back at the kneeling Veronica with her cloth, John covering his eyes with his red sleeve, and Longinus leading on a rearing horse; Wheelock notes that Veronica comes from the Golden Legend, not the Bible. Cornelis van Poelenburch keeps the figures small in a wide Italian landscape. Golgotha is still a long way off.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'Christ Carrying the Cross', Cornelis van Poelenburch, early 1620s, 2007.49.1, The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund; read 2026-09-01. · Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., 'Cornelis van Poelenburch, Christ Carrying the Cross, early 1620s', Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, NGA Online Editions, published 24 April 2014
And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.
John 19:17 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
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The file this print is made from
| Artist | Cornelis van Poelenburch (Dutch, 1594/1595–1667) |
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| Date | early 1620s |
| Museum | National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| Accession | 2007.49.1 |
| Medium | oil on copper |
| Dimensions | overall: 44.2 x 62.3 cm (17 3/8 x 24 1/2 in.) |
| Sheet sizes | 16×20 in, 18×24 in, 24×36 in |
| Held by | National Gallery of Art, Washington · 2007.49.1 the museum’s record |
|---|---|
| Source file | the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) |
| Licence | public domain; the file released under CC0 |
| Master | 6,359 × 4,460 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from the National Gallery of Art’s own open-access file (IIIF) on 1 September 2026; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,359 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.