Christ en Croix

Georges Rouault

1936

Original aquatint in colors on Montval paper

78 x 57.3 cm

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

Catalog raisonné : 286

Christ on the Cross is part of a project to recast 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.