Christ on the Cross
(1846)
Eugène Delacroix
(Charenton-Saint-Maurice, 1798 - 1863)
Luke 23:26-43
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Eugène Delacroix
- Created
- 1854
- Dimension
- 73cm × 60cm
- Method
- oil on canvas
- Passage
- Mark 4
- Housed at
- Walters Art Museum 600 N. Charles St., Baltimore
This scene is based on an incident recounted in three Gospels of the New Testament: a furious storm breaks out while Jesus and his disciples sail across the Sea of Galilee to spread Christ's message. To the disciples' amazement, Jesus calms the wind and the storm, dramatizing the power of Christian belief. Delacroix produced multiple variations on this theme in 1853 and 1854, when this particular biblical subject became popular with French Catholics during the reign of Louis-Napoléon (r. 1852-70).
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