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| View Original: | François Du Quesnoy - The Infant Christ with Instruments of the Passion - Walters 27374.jpg (1800x1482) | |||
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| Keywords: François Du Quesnoy - The Infant Christ with Instruments of the Passion - Walters 27374.jpg The infant Christ grave and meditative reaches out to touch the crown of thorns a painful symbol of his future sacrifice beside which lie the whip with which he was tortured and bent nails drawn from the cross The cloth is be for wrapping an infant but is the shroud in which his dead body will be wrapped Christ's Passion was implicit in his birth Interpreting him as a tender chubby infant far too young for the understanding implied here gives the figure great poignancy This type of infant impossibly young for his or her actions was developed in Rome in the 1620s by the influential Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy This sensitive example is by him or a close follower It may have been made as a model for a version in marble or bronze; however it was once gilded and was displayed as a finished work of art ca 1640 Baroque terracotta gilding cm 28 6 39 8 accession number 27 374 5171 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters Salute to Belgium place of origin Antwerp Walters Art Museum license Salute to Belgium Baroque sculpture in the Walters Art Museum François Duquesnoy Statues of Jesus | ||||
