Calvary with a Carthusian Monk
Medium
oil on oak panel
Dimensions
unframed: 56.6 × 45.7 cm · framed: 63.5 × 52.5 × 6.7 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Accession Number
1964.454
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
Jean de Beaumetz became the official court painter to the Burgundian duke, Philip the Bold, in 1376. Between 1389 and 1395 he created devotional paintings for the monks’ cells at the Chartreuse de Champmol, the monastery founded by Philip and his wife Margaret to house the ducal tombs. This panel, originally one of 26, is only one of two that have survived; the second is preserved in the Louvre in Paris. The Carthusians were intensely devoted to the Passion of Christ; particularly bloody images ...