Christ and the Doctor
c. 1935
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 8.7 x 10.8 cm (3 7/16 x 4 1/4 in.) framed: 21 x 21.6 x 3.2 cm (8 1/4 x 8 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Accession Number
1970.17.80
About the Artist
Georges Rouault
Georges-Henri Rouault was born on May 27, 1871, in a Paris cellar during the violent "Bloody Week" of the Paris Commune, when a stray shell destroyed his family's home in the working-class Belleville district. Raised by a carpenter father who worked at the Pleyel piano factory and a grandfather who collected prints by Honoré Daumier, Rembrandt, Courbet, and Manet, Rouault showed early artistic pro...