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Agnus Dei
c. 1635–40 · Oil on canvas · San Diego Museum of Art
For Corpus Christi
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image 14×9.1 in on a 14×11 in sheet
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All editionsAbout this painting
A lamb lies on a bare stone ledge, its four feet crossed and tied with cord, and a thin gold ring hangs over its head. Nothing else is in the room. The San Diego Museum of Art asks outright whether this is still life or devotional symbolic painting; Miguel Ángel Aparicio files it with the lambs Emilio Orozco called bodegones a lo divino, still lifes made sacred, and finds that every lamb Zurbarán painted is a merino. The halo, for Aparicio, gives the icon its sharper meaning, and he traces the canvas's inscription, TANQUAM AGNUS, to Isaiah 53:7: "dumb as a lamb before his shearer." Of its own version the Prado sees an animal still alive, in an unmistakably sacrificial posture. The eyes are half shut. The Lamb of God is waiting, and He does not open His mouth.
Sources: San Diego Museum of Art, Spanish Art, entry for Agnus Dei, 1947.36, read 2026-09-24 · Museo Nacional del Prado, 'A lamb (Agnus Dei)', Francisco de Zurbarán, P007293, read 2026-09-24 · Miguel Ángel Aparicio Tovar, 'El ganado ovino en la obra de Zurbarán', Olivenza 2004, pp. 99-104, read 2026-09-24
He was offered because it was his own will, and he opened not his mouth: he shall be led as a sheep to the slaughter, and shall be dumb as a lamb before his shearer, and he shall not open his mouth.
Isaias 53:7 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)