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Diptych panels: Christ carries a heavy cross past soldiers with a dog, and the risen Christ in red stands beside a tomb with sleeping guards.

Christ Carrying the Cross and the Resurrection, Diptych Panels

Two panels of an oil painting on oak. The left shows Christ bearing the cross along a rocky path, followed by armored soldiers and a small white dog, with the Crucifixion on a distant hill. The right shows the risen Christ in a red robe beside an open tomb, with sleeping guards below and a walled town behind.

Artist
Gerard David
Date
ca. 1510
Medium
Oil on oak panel
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
2565 × 3722 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1515).
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

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