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The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
ca. 1624–25 · Oil on canvas · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Two pairs of bare feet stand in the dust, and between them a skull lies at the foot of the Cross. Our Lady presses her hands together at her breast; Saint John, hands clasped too, looks up with his mouth open; Christ hangs between them, blood running from His hands. Hendrick ter Brugghen painted it about 1624-25 and made it look a century older: The Met says the rigorous symmetry, the flat star-studded sky and the contorted, bleeding body deliberately recall early sixteenth-century German painting, coveted by collectors of his day. It was made for a Catholic's private prayer, and the Virgin and John, the museum says, stand in for our own agonised looking. Wayne Franits notes Christ's distinctly greenish flesh and reads the skull and bones as a poignant vanitas. Two of them look up. The third place is yours.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 'The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John', 56.228; read 2026-09-24. · Wayne Franits, 'Hendrick ter Brugghen's Paintings of the Crucifixion in New York and Turin and the Problem of His Early Chronology', Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 9, no. 1 (2017); read 2026-09-24.
When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.
John 19:26 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
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The file this print is made from
| Artist | Hendrick ter Brugghen (Dutch, The Hague? 1588–1629 Utrecht) |
|---|---|
| Date | ca. 1624–25 |
| Museum | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Accession | 56.228 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 61 in. × 40 1/4 in. (154.9 × 102.2 cm) |
| Sheet sizes | 18×24 in, 32×48 in |
| Held by | The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 56.228 the museum’s record |
|---|---|
| Source file | Wikimedia Commons · Hendrick ter Brugghen The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John.jpg |
| Licence | Public domain |
| Master | 3,987 × 5,943 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from Wikimedia Commons on 25 August 2026; cut to the painted field; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 5,943 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.