Mihály Munkácsy · 1881
Christ Before Pilate
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Munkácsy's monumental Pilate scene — Christ silent, the crowd thrust forward at him, the procurator hesitating. The most-toured European painting of the late 19th century. Déri Museum, Debrecen.
Up to 16 × 11 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of Christ Before Pilate
Mihály Munkácsy was Hungary's most internationally successful 19th-century painter — Paris-based, fashionable in the salons of New York and London. His monumental Christ Before Pilate of 1881, the first of his huge religious triptych on the Passion, toured Europe and America in the 1880s as a paid-admission spectacle that drew millions. The painting now hangs in the Déri Museum in Debrecen, Hungary. Christ stands silent, the crowd thrust forward, Pilate frozen in indecision.
Mihály Munkácsy
Mihály Munkácsy was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings.
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