Lot Essay
The composition, with differences in the background, derives from autograph versions in the collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and the Koninklijke Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (see J.R. Judson, The Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard: The Passion of Christ, VI, pp. 123-129, nos. 30-31, figs. 93, 96).