# Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PRETI, Mattia]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 155 x 197 cm ## Commentary Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery c. 1670 Oil on canvas, 155 x 197 cm Private collection Mattia Preti painted this subject on at least four other occasions. Each displays the immediacy and psychological depths characteristic of his Biblical narratives, but is presented in a unique composition. ## Related artworks - [A Mother Entrusting Her Sons to Christ]() - [Absalom's Feast]() - [Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius Fleeing Troy]() - [Beheading of St. Catherine]() - [Christ in Glory]() - [Concert \(detail\)]() - [Concert]() - [David Playing the Harp before Saul]() - [Decollation of St John \(detail\)]() - [Erminia, Princess of Antioch]() - [Painting in the choir: Crucifixion of St Andrew]() - [Painting in the choir: Entombment]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()