Object Description
Series: THE PASSION OF CHRIST
397 CHRIST ON GETHSEMANE
Christ in prayer before altar-like stone, covered with a cloth on which are an open book and a chalice. Around, boulders and trees. Above, an angel holding a cross. In the foreground, a sleeping apostle; two others on the left, behind a boulder.
Bronze, gilt, 89 x 64 mm. Lower left corner broken off; hole at top.
Four scenes are known from this series. The Lamentation (cf. no. 380) included by Frederiks (no. 117d) probably does not belong to the group.
Another specimen: (bronze) Cologne, Kunstgewerbemuseum.
Bibl.: Rudolf Verres, "Der Meister AV, ein hollandischer Goldschmied des 17. Jahrhunderts," Pantheon 4 (1929), 413-16; Th. M. Duyvene de Wit-Klinkhamer, "Werk van den Zilversmid A. V. B.," Oud-Holland 63 (1948), p. 87; J. W. Frederiks, Dutch Silver i, The Hague, 1952, p. 189 ff., no. 117, with illustrations; Weber, no. 954, 1.
