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Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery is a small panel painting in grisaille (near monochrome) by the Netherlandish Renaissance printmaker and painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It is signed and dated 1565.

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
ArtistPieter Bruegel the Elder
Year1565
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions24.1 cm × 34.4 cm (9.5 in × 13.5 in)
LocationCourtauld Gallery, London

Jesus and the woman taken in adultery is a biblical episode from John 8:1–8:20 where Jesus encounters an adulteress brought before Pharisees and scribes, which has been depicted by many artists. Such a crime was punishable by death by stoning, however, in the scene, Jesus stoops to write (in Dutch) "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast the stone at her" on the ground before her feet.[1] A number of the unthrown stones lie on the floor to the left of the woman.[2]

Bruegel depicts the woman as one of the few graceful figures in the scene. She is rendered as an idealised form, atypical of Brugel's usual earthy and homely female figures;[3] though the basic layout of the composition is Netherlandish, "the austere composition and monumental figures are perhaps the most Italianate in all Bruegel's paintings".[4] Apart from an even smaller Three Soldiers in the Frick Collection, Bruegel's only other surviving grisaille painting is the Death of the Virgin at Upton House, Warwickshire, which is also an unusually conventional treatment of a religious subject by Bruegel's standards.[5] However, the earliest documented work by Bruegel was grisaille wings for an altarpiece in 1550/51, as he finished his apprenticeship. This was in Mechelen, where he is documented between September 1550 and October 1551 assisting Peeter Baltens on an altarpiece (now lost), painting the wings.[6]

The painting was not sold by the artist, and seems to be the only one inherited by his son Jan Brueghel the Elder. An engraving was published in 1579 by Paul Perret, who was apparently lent the painting for the purpose, since there are regular pricks along the edges to enable a grid to be made. There are a number of other copies, some attributed to the artist's sons, perhaps made after the engraving, and the painting was lent to Cardinal Federico Borromeo for copying (perhaps the version now in Bergamo).[4] A version attributed to Breuegel's son Pieter Brueghel the Younger of c. 1600 is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[1]

The work was sold by the family in the 17th century, apparently by Jan Brueghel the Younger, and was in England by the 18th century, being sold at Christie's in 1834 and again in 1952 when it was bought by Count Antoine Seilern, whose collection was bequeathed to the Courtauld in 1978.[4] The work was stolen from the Courtauld Gallery on 2 February 1982.[7] Because of its value and fame, it proved unsaleable on the open market, and did not resurface again until 1992 when it was recovered by British police. During that interim, it likely acted as collateral for the criminals.[8]




Notes


  1. "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved on 29 May 2009.
  2. Sutton, 74
  3. Hagen & Hagen, 28
  4. Braham, 7
  5. Braham, 7. Braham says "the most notable other [grisaille] example"
  6. Wied, Alexander Wied and Van Miegroet, Hans J. "Bruegel." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press, accessed February 2, 2017, subscription required
  7. Apple, R.W. JR. "London Theft: $1 Million Bruegel". The New York Times, 4 February 1982. Retrieved on 29 May 2009.
  8. Gillman, Peter & Gillman, Leni. "Paint job: How the Tate profited from a great art heist". Sunday Times, January 26, 2003. Retrieved on 29 May 2009.

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[de] Christus und die Ehebrecherin (Bruegel)

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[fr] Le Christ et la Femme adultère (Brueghel)

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[it] Cristo e l'adultera (Bruegel)

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