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Italian school; late seventeenth century. "Infant Jesus carrying the Cross". Oil on copper. Presents restorations. Measurements: 21 x 15 cm. In this painting Jesus is represented as an innocent child, carrying the instruments of his future martyrdom. The naked Child lying on a blue cloth that represents the universality of the Christian message, seems to reflect on his own destiny with a lost and reflective look. Inscribed in an idyllic landscape, the monumentality of the young Jesus makes him the protagonist of this devotional scene. Christian art took delight throughout its history, and especially in the Modern Age, in projecting the innocent childhood of Jesus next to the representation of the cross. The contrast between the happy unconcern of a child and the horror of the sacrifice to which he was predestined was designed to move hearts. This idea was already familiar to the theologians of the Middle Ages, but the artists of the time expressed it discreetly, either through the worried expression of the Virgin, or through the bunch of grapes that the Child squeezes in his hands. It will be especially in the art of the Counter-Reformation where this funeral presentiment of the Passion is expressed by means of transparent allusions. Thematically highlighting the work of Zurbarán showing the Child Jesus pricking himself with his finger while braiding a crown of thorns. Murillo, the little St. John the Baptist showing him his cross of reeds. Finally, the theme finds its most poignant expression in the theme of the Infant Jesus Sleeping on a cross. Here Jesus is not presented as a baby but as a somewhat older child, fully aware of his destiny, and in fact carrying it voluntarily, as a burden he accepts on behalf of humanity. It presents restorations.

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Italian school; late seventeenth century. "Infant Jesus carrying the Cross". Oil on copper. Presents restorations. Measurements: 21 x 15 cm. In this painting Jesus is represented as an innocent child, carrying the instruments of his future martyrdom. The naked Child lying on a blue cloth that represents the universality of the Christian message, seems to reflect on his own destiny with a lost and reflective look. Inscribed in an idyllic landscape, the monumentality of the young Jesus makes him the protagonist of this devotional scene. Christian art took delight throughout its history, and especially in the Modern Age, in projecting the innocent childhood of Jesus next to the representation of the cross. The contrast between the happy unconcern of a child and the horror of the sacrifice to which he was predestined was designed to move hearts. This idea was already familiar to the theologians of the Middle Ages, but the artists of the time expressed it discreetly, either through the worried expression of the Virgin, or through the bunch of grapes that the Child squeezes in his hands. It will be especially in the art of the Counter-Reformation where this funeral presentiment of the Passion is expressed by means of transparent allusions. Thematically highlighting the work of Zurbarán showing the Child Jesus pricking himself with his finger while braiding a crown of thorns. Murillo, the little St. John the Baptist showing him his cross of reeds. Finally, the theme finds its most poignant expression in the theme of the Infant Jesus Sleeping on a cross. Here Jesus is not presented as a baby but as a somewhat older child, fully aware of his destiny, and in fact carrying it voluntarily, as a burden he accepts on behalf of humanity. It presents restorations.

Estimate 2 200 - 2 500 EUR
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