The Crowning with Thorns (van Dyck)

The Crowning with Thorns is an oil on canvas painting from about 1618 to 1620 by the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, measuring roughly 225 by 197 centimetres and held today at the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It shows Christ being crowned with thorns, rendered in a sombre palette with strong chiaroscuro and closely observed musculature reflecting both the influence of Peter Paul Rubens, for whom van Dyck was then working as a studio assistant in Antwerp, and of Venetian painters such as Titian. Rubens declined the finished picture, after which it was bought by King Philip IV of Spain for the monastery of El Escorial, and it entered the Prado collection in 1839. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/