Christ and the Adulteress (Titian, Vienna) explained

Christ and the Adulteress
Medium:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:82.5
Width Metric:136.5
Metric Unit:cm
Imperial Unit:in
Museum:Museum of Fine Arts
City:Vienna
Accession:GG_114

Christ and the Adulteress (German: Christus und die Ehebrecherin), also titled Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, or The Adulteress before Christ, is an oil painting by Titian, made about 1520, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.[1] [2]

Provenance

Carlo Ridolfi mentions having seen this picture in the Venetian studio of Bartolomeo della Nave. It formed part of the art collection of the Duke of Hamilton from 1638 to 1649. It then entered the collection Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.

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Notes and References

  1. Kunsthistorisches Museum.
  2. Ricketts 1910, p. 146.