Eugène Delacroix - Christ on the Lake of Gennezaret 1854
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Christ on the Lake of Gennezaret 1854
50x61cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
Delacroix painted at least six versions of this New Testament lesson in faith: when awakened by his terrified disciples, Christ scolded them for their lack of trust in Providence. In the earlier works, the seascape is more prominent; in the later ones, as here, Christ’s bark occupies a more significant place. After Vincent van Gogh saw this version in Paris in 1886, he 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—speak a symbolic language through color itself."