Eugène Delacroix, Christ Asleep during the Tempest, c 1853

Eugène Delacroix, Christ Asleep during the Tempest, c 1853

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Christ Asleep during the Tempest, c 1853, oil on canvas, h 50.8 x w 61 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, U.S.

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Christ Asleep during the Tempest, c 1853, oil on canvas, h 50.8 x w 61 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, U.S.

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Christ Asleep during the Tempest, c 1853, oil on canvas, h 50.8 x w 61 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, U.S.

Christ Asleep during the Tempest is an oil on canvas painting by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix, executed c. 1853. The painting is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[1]

After seeing the painting in 1886, while it was on display in Paris, Vincent van Gogh wrote: "Christ’s boat—I’m talking about the blue and green sketch with touches of purple and red and a little lemon yellow for the halo, the aureole—speaks a symbolic language through color itself."

Artist
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Title
Christ Asleep during the Tempest

Part of
Christ on the Sea of Galilee

Series title
Christ on the Sea of Galilee

Object type
painting

Genre
religious art

Date
circa 1853

Medium
oil on canvas

Dimensions
h 50.8 x w 61 cm

Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, U.S.

#1853 #1850s #EugèneDelacroix

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Asleep_during_the_Tempest

Eugène Delacroix, Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854

Eugène Delacroix, Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854

The Calming of the Storm at Sea

He got into a boat and his disciples followed him. Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves; but he was asleep. They came and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us! We are perishing!" He said to them, "Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm. The men were amazed and said, "What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea obey?" (Matthew 8,24-26)

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854, oil on canvas, 59.8 x 73.3 cm, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States of America[1]

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854, oil on canvas, 59.8 x 73.3 cm, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States of America[2]

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), Christ on the Sea of Galilee, 1854, oil on canvas, 59.8 x 73.3 cm, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, United States of America

Artist    
Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Title    
French: Christ sur ​​la mer de Galilée
Christ on the Sea of Galilee

Part of
Christ on the Sea of Galilee

Series title
Christ on the Sea of Galilee

Object type
oil paintings

Genre
religious art

Depicted people
Jesus

Date
1854

Medium
oil on canvas

Dimensions    
h 59.8 x w 73.3 cm

Collection    
Walters Art Museum, Maryland, U.S.

#EugèneDelacroix #Christ #SeaofGalilee #Jesus #1854 #1850s #WaltersArtMuseum #Maryland #US

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[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_sur_la_mer_de_Galil%C3%A9e_(Delacroix)_Walters_Art_Museum_37.186.jpg

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_Christ_on_the_Sea_of_Galilee_-_Google_Art_Project_(27796212).jpg