Rouault, Georges, Christ on the Cross, 1936

1936

Original aquatint in color on Montval paper

78 x 57.3 cm

Signed and dated by the artist in the plate lower left, signed in ink by the artist lower right and numbered in pencil on 175

Catalogue raisonné : 286

Christ on the Cross is part of a project to rework the Miserere. Initially printed in black and white, Georges Rouault softened the dramatic austerity by adding bright colors. Like a Gothic stained-glass window flooded with light, Christ’s passion illuminates the exalted viewer.