| Christ Asleep during the Tempest | |
| Artist: | Eugène Delacroix |
| Year: | ca. 1853 |
| Medium: | Oil on canvas |
| Height Metric: | 50.8 |
| Width Metric: | 61 |
| Height Imperial: | 20 |
| Width Imperial: | 21 |
| Metric Unit: | cm |
| Imperial Unit: | in |
| Museum: | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| City: | New York |
Christ Asleep during the Tempest is an oil on canvas painting by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix, executed c. 1853.[1] The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[2] [3]
Delacroix painted at least six versions of the biblical story of Christ sleeping during a storm while on the Sea of Galilee.[4] After seeing the painting in 1886, while it was on display in Paris, Vincent van Gogh wrote: "Christ’s boat—I’m talking about the blue and green sketch with touches of purple and red and a little lemon yellow for the halo, the aureole—speaks a symbolic language through color itself."[5]