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After Titian (c. 1488-Venice 1576)
Ecce Homo c.1630-80
Oil on canvas | 100.3 x 93.5 x 2.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 406066
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Christ is shown almost frontally, standing slightly to the left of the centre. His hands are bound before him and he is wearing the crown of thorns and looking downwards. To the left a young boy holds the end of the rope and lifts Christ's robe to reveal his wounds. Pontius Pilate is to the right, holding his hands up before him. The background is architectural, with an arched opening to the sky.
The model upon which this painting is based does not survive, but it must have been very similar to a painting now at Dresden which has an early attribution to Francesco Vecellio. This copy is somewhat clumsy and is poorly preserved.
The painting appears in Pyne's illustrated Royal Residences of 1819, hanging in The Queen's Closet at Kensington Palace (RCIN 922154).Provenance
First recorded in the Queen's Dressing Room at Kensington Palace in 1818 (no 230); a Titian of this subject is listed in various places during the previous 150 years, but this may be another paintings as its dimensions are given as 2ft 8in x 2ft 6in (81 x 76cm) in the Whitehall inventory of 1666 (no 61)
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
100.3 x 93.5 x 2.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
