The Crucifixion

ca. 1625–30

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 619

Orrente traveled to Venice and Rome before working in Toledo, where he knew El Greco. The younger artist adopted El Greco’s high-pitched palette and penchant for exaggerated forms, but he combined them with a naturalism learned from paintings inspired by Caravaggio. Here, he filled a frequently depicted crucifixion subject with a series of anecdotal details.The dynamic but elegant figure on a ladder, for example, responds to Christ’s cry of thirst by using a cane to retrieve from a bystander a wet sponge that he will then hold to Christ’s lips.

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Title: The Crucifixion
Artist: Pedro Orrente (Spanish, Murcia 1580–1645 Valencia)
Date: ca. 1625–30
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 48 3/4 × 40 1/2 in. (123.8 × 102.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price and Fern and George Wachter Gifts, 2014
Object Number: 2014.228
Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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