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Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane
  • Juan de Ancheta
    Miguel de Espinal
    active: Spain
    Lope de Larrea y Ercilla, or
    1540-1623
    active: Spain
  • Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, circa 1578-1584
  • wood relief, polychrome, gilding
  • Object Height/Width: 115.6 x 78.7 cm
    Object Height/Width: 45 1/2 x 31 in
  • Museum purchase: Patrons and Benefactors Fund
  • On view: Renaissance Gallery
  • 1967.0003
Description
Literature

Three sleeping figures of saints in foreground; Figure identified as Christ, profile view, in the background on top of a rock formation. Trees frame the middle ground.