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The Agony in the Garden
Eugène Delacroix French
Not on view
Delacroix chose ink wash again when he revisited the subject of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane more than twenty years after he first treated the subject. Tone conveys meaning: a heavenly light from above combines with the glow emanating from Christ to illuminate his resolute expression against the background of encroaching darkness. In this and his other later versions of the subject (a pastel and two small paintings), the artist adhered more to the Gospel according to Matthew, in which Christ is alone and prostrate.
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