Christ kneels and writes on the pavement at center and a woman taken in adultery by three soldiers at right

1653

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 19 3/4 in. (35.9 × 50.2 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.136.912
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Luca Giordano. Christ kneels and writes on the pavement at center and a woman taken in adultery by three soldiers at right. Luca Giordano; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Christ kneels and writes on the pavement at center and a woman taken in adultery by three soldiers at right — Luca Giordano. 1653.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet: 14 1/8 × 19 3/4 in. (35.9 × 50.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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