DOUFFET, Gérard (b. 1594, Liège, d. 1660, Liège) |
Taking of Christ with the Malchus Episodec. 1620Oil on canvas, 147 x 194 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |
This dramatic and strongly coloured picture was influenced by Caravaggio's Taking of Christ and by Bartolomeo Manfredi's lost painting of the same subject. Regarding the authorship, stylistic analysis points to a Flemish painter active in Rome, most likely to Douffet. It is assumed, however, that Valentin de Boulogne participated in the earliest stages. |