Ecce Homo after Correggio, Christ crowned with thorns in half length against an olive ground, oil on canvas in an antique ebonised frame

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Ecce Homo, 17th Century Old Master Oil on Canvas after Correggio, Italian Baroque, Framed

After Antonio Allegri da Correggio (1489–1534)

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The Ecce Homo in its ebonised frame resting on an oak side table in a plain white room, showing the scale of the framed canvas

Angled view of the Ecce Homo showing the ebonised frame with its gilt sight edge and the losses along the upper rail

The Ecce Homo seen at an angle in its antique ebonised frame, showing the worn gilt fillet at the sight edge and the losses along the upper rail

The Ecce Homo in its full antique ebonised frame, the gilt fillet worn to the bole around the sight edge and the black mouldings rubbed on every side

Macro of the face in the Ecce Homo showing the blood running from under the crown of thorns, the fine age craquelure across the flesh and the thorn tips at the temple

Macro of the eyes in the Ecce Homo showing the fine age craquelure through the flesh and the bright red of the blood sitting uncracked on the surface

Macro of the chest in the Ecce Homo showing drops of blood laid over the flesh, the rose drapery at the shoulder and the age craquelure through the original paint

Macro of the left shoulder in the Ecce Homo showing the rose drapery in thin glazes, two drops of blood over the flesh and the age craquelure of the original paint

Macro of the crown of thorns in the Ecce Homo showing the plaited branches, the thorn tips at the temple and the blood running down the cheek over the age craquelure

Macro of the right temple in the Ecce Homo showing the plaited crown, a pale leaf caught in the branches and the thorn tips drawn out against the olive ground

Reverse of the Ecce Homo showing the relining canvas on a later stretcher within the antique frame, with old nail holes throughout the frame members

The blood is the only saturated colour in the picture. Six or seven red drops on the brow and the chest, brighter than anything else in a head painted almost entirely in greys.

Oil on canvas, relined, 17 x 13 inches (43 x 33 cm), 21 x 17 inches (53 x 43 cm) framed, unsigned. Italian School, seventeenth century, after Correggio, in an antique ebonised frame.

Christ is shown half length against a grey green ground, the head inclined and turned, the crown of thorns pressed low on the brow. The flesh is built in cool greys and greenish whites with almost no warm note, the hair and beard laid in as a single dark mass, and a rose coloured robe falls from both shoulders.

An Ecce Homo without the scene
The subject means Behold the Man, and it is normally a crowd scene, Pilate presenting Christ to the mob from a balcony. Correggio's version threw all of that away and kept the head alone, looking out. A painter copying it in seventeenth century Italy was not painting an event. He was painting something to be looked at in return, and that is why there are no hands, no ropes and nobody else in the picture.

Everything in the head is kept cold and low except the eyes. They are open, lifted, and they carry the only light in the picture, which is what makes it hold a room from across it.

Provenance ▾

Private collection, Paris, France

Artist

After Antonio Allegri da Correggio (1489–1534)

Period

17th Century

Origin

Italy

Style

Italian Baroque

Medium

Oil on canvas, relined

Signature

Unsigned

Frame

Antique ebonised frame with a gilt fillet at the sight edge, the gilding worn to the red bole and the black rubbed on all four sides, with the old nail holes and patina of a frame that has stayed with its picture. A loss and a later screw to the upper rail.

Features

Original, one of a kind

Painting

17 x 13 inches

Framed

21 x 17 inches

Condition

Relined and stable on a later stretcher, under the fine age craquelure normal to a seventeenth century canvas. The red of the blood has been strengthened at some point by a later hand and sits above the craquelure. Small pictorial losses and traces of an old varnish.

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