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Dark print of the Crucifixion: a glowing figure of Christ on a central cross, crowds and mounted soldiers below, two crosses on either side under a rayed sky.

Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses

An etching-style print of the Crucifixion shows Christ on the central cross, bathed in a shaft of light against a dark sky. Crowds, mounted soldiers with spears, and figures on the ground gather in the shadowed foreground, while two crucified men flank the central cross.

Artist
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)
Date
1653
Medium
Drypoint printed on vellum
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
3795 × 3305 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1653).
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, Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941

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