Christ in the Garden of Olives

1615·Black chalk, brush and gray wash, and pen and brown ink, heightened with white chalk, with traces of graphite, on gray-brown laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer·31.2 × 23.3 cm (12 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.)

Margaret Day Blake Fund

Catalogue

Year: 1615
Medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash, and pen and brown ink, heightened with white chalk, with traces of graphite, on gray-brown laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer
Dimensions: 31.2 × 23.3 cm (12 5/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Gerrit van Honthorst

Artist

Gerrit van Honthorst

Gerard "Gerrit" van Honthorst was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the Italian nickname Gherardo delle Notti. Early in his career he visited Rome, where he had great success painting in a style influenced by Caravaggio. Following his return to the Netherlands he became a leading portrait painter. Van Honthorst's contemporaries included Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen.

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