Pilate washing his hands

Four versions of the present picture are listed in Nicolson, (see B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, ed. L. Vertova, Turin, 1990, I, p.190), all apparently copies after a lost original. For the picture in Cassel see also B. Schnackenburg, Gesantkatalog Gemldegalerie Alte Meister Kassel, Mainz, 1996, p.73, no. GK 589, pl. 98 (as a copy). To these can be added the picture at Sotheby's, New York, 19 May 1995, lot 14 (unsold) and the present hitherto unrecorded picture.