# Christ on the Lake of Gennezaret [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DELACROIX, Eugène]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm ## Commentary 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 Lake of Gennezaret \(Sea of Galilee\) 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 \(r. 1852-70\). The influence of Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa can be traced in this painting. ## Related artworks - [A Mad Woman]() - [A Moroccan Saddling a Horse]() - [A Mortally Wounded Brigand Quenches his Thirst]() - [A Vase of Flowers on a Console]() - [A Young Tiger Playing with its Mother]() - [Apollo Slays Python \(detail\)]() - [Apollo Slays Python]() - [Apollo Slays Python]() - [Apollo Vanquishing the Python]() - [Arab Fantasia]() - [Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable]() - [Aspasia]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()