Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns)
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Underneath this picture is another one: an unfinished Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child on his shoulder, probably also by Bosch — the Christ-bearer painted over by the Christ-tormented. Above it four men close in. One holds the crown in a mailed glove; one wears a spiked collar, which the Gallery reads through Psalm 21, “for many dogs have encompassed me.” Christ's robe has always been white — no faded red pigment has ever been found in it. The crown of thorns makes the shape of a halo.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, 'Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns)', NG4744; read 2026-08-27. · Lorne Campbell, National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings, with French Paintings before 1600 (London: National Gallery Company / Yale University Press, 2014), entry for NG4744, published free by the Gallery; read 2026-08-27.
And platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand. And bowing the knee before him, they mocked him, saying: Hail, King of the Jews.
Matthew 27:29 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,000 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.