XIe Station. Jésus est cloué sur la croix. Cette station se trouve placée au pied même de l'autel.
1860 or later
Medium
Albumen silver print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 10 1/8 × 7 7/8 in. (25.7 × 20 cm) Mount: 17 15/16 × 23 1/4 in. (45.5 × 59 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.500.3 (41)
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the dim glow of altar lamps, this poignant albumen silver print captures 11th Station of the—"Jésus est cloué sur la croix (Jesus is nailed to cross)—positioned intimately at the foot of a church altar. Created by photographers Louis de Clercq,. Jannin, J. Blondeau, and Anton around 1860 or later, the image immortalizes a sacred tableau blending sculpture, cross, and liturgical elements, evoking the Catholic tradition of the Via Crucis, a devotional sequence meditating on Christ's Passion. The medium, an albumen silver print from a paper negative, exemplifies mid-19th-century photography's...