Christ Carrying the Cross
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John sends him to Golgotha bearing his own cross. The Museu Nacional reads that cross as triumph over death, not an instrument of martyrdom, the face as holding not pain but confidence in eternal life — colour modelling the volumes, the body distorted, the museum says, to show spiritual longing.
He painted the subject many times in Spain; the Metropolitan calls its own a devotional image, not a narrative scene. Espona left this one to Barcelona in 1958.
The De imitatione Christi, the source the museum names, runs: carry the cross willingly and it will carry you.
Sources: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 'Christ Carrying the Cross', inv. 065577-000 (English edition of the record) · Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 'Crist amb la Creu', núm. de registre 065577-000 · Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 'Cristo con la Cruz', núm. 065577-000 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Christ Carrying the Cross', acc. 1975.1.145, Robert Lehman Collection · Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, 'Donations and bequests to the Museu Nacional' · Thomas a Kempis, De imitatione Christi, Book II, ch. 12, 'The Royal Road of the Holy Cross'
And bearing his own cross, he went forth to the place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha.
John 19:17 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,692 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.