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Pilate Washes His Hands
1405–1408/9 · Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
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A basin, two open hands, and Christ standing a few steps off in blue. Pilate sits on his throne under a canopy and lets a servant pour; the Met reads the gesture as the judge absolving himself of the condemnation of Christ. Water cannot carry that away. At the right stands a large man in pink, and the Met notes he appears to derive from an earlier model and sits ambiguously against the throne, his sleeve meeting Pilate's blue in a space the Limbourg brothers could not settle. A borrowed figure crowds the judge who claims to stand apart. Christ keeps His place, and waits.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art of Illumination, 'Pilate Washes his Hands, Folio 138r', Belles Heures, 54.1.1, read 2026-09-24 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art of Illumination, 'Hours of the Passion' (2010), read 2026-09-24 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, 54.1.1a, b, object record, read 2026-09-24
And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it.
Matthew 27:24 · Douay-Rheims