03 — ARTWORK
Taking of Christ with the Malchus Episode
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 147 x 194 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
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- FILE
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COMMENTARY
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Taking of Christ with the Malchus Episode c. 1620 Oil on canvasA woven cloth used as a support for painting. The best-quality canvas is made of linen; other materials used are cotton, hemp, and jute. It is now so familiar a material that the word 'canvas' has become almost a synonym for an oil painting, but it was not until around 1500 that it began to rival the wooden panel (which was more expensive and took longer to prepare) as the standard support for movable paintings (the transition came later in Northern Europe than in Italy). Canvas is not suitable for painting on until it has been coated with a ground, which isolates the fabric from the paint; otherwise it will absorb too much paint, only very rough effects will be obtainable, and parts of the fabric may be rotted by the pigments. It must also be made taut on a stretcher or by some other means., 147 x 194 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
This dramatic and strongly coloured picture was influenced by <A onclick="return OpenOther('/html/c/caravagg/03/191captu.html')" HREF="/html/c/caravagg/03/191captu.html">Caravaggio's Taking of Christ</A> and by Bartolomeo Manfredi's lost painting of the same subject. Regarding the authorship, stylistic analysis points to a Flemish painter active in Rome, most likely to Douffet. It is assumed, however, that Valentin de Boulogne participated in the earliest stages.
CITE THIS RECORD — BIBTEX
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Taking of Christ with the Malchus Episode by DOUFFET, Gérard},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/douffet-grard-rac560819e7b00c/taking-of-christ-with-the-malchus-episode-rf448b05047a301},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
OTHER WORKS BY GÉRARD DOUFFET
- Pope Nicholas V Visiting the Tomb of St Francis of Assisi 1627
- The Holy Family 1650
- Venus and Cupid in the Forge of Vulcan 1645
The archive catalogues no further works by this artist.
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