Mocking of Christ - Nicolaes Maes

Mocking of Christ by Nicolaes Maes - Christianity, Religious Paintings from Hermitage Museum

Painting Detail

Mocking of Christ
Artist: Nicolaes Maes
Medium: Painting, Oil on canvas, 190.5x119.5 cm
Date: 1650s
Genre: Christianity, Religious
Source: Via the State Museum Fund from the collection of Countess L. A. Musina-Pushkina, 1919

The figures are shown almost full size, which reinforces the significance of the scene and gives it a sense of greater reality. Nicolaes Maes picks out amidst the gloomy olive-green colouring the red of the mantle in which Jesus was attired during his appearance before Pilate, reinforcing Christ's central role, affirming the existence of the Truth and of Christ's immortality.