Christ at the Column

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, c. 1606–1607

Oil on canvas, 134.5 × 175.5 cm

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen

Room V · Flight and Naples (1606–1607)

Christ at the Column, Caravaggio, c. 1606–1607 — Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Christ, bound to the column, turns his gaze towards us as two tormentors close in. More intimate than the great Neapolitan Flagellation, it concentrates everything on three half-length figures pressed into a dark space.