After Guido Reni (XIX), Follower of - Cristo coronato di spine

Executed with a vigorous and deeply expressive stroke, this charcoal drawing on paper depicts the face of Christ crowned with thorns, in line with the typical sensitivity of 19th-century devotional production. The work is ideally situated within the realm of 19th-century sacred graphics, when numerous artists—trained in European academies and still influenced by the study of great masters of the Seventeenth century—reinterpreted the dramatic and intense models of the Baroque tradition to satisfy a growing religious and private clientele.

The drawing is distinguished by the controlled use of chiaroscuro, which models the face with an academic taste of plastic tension, while the darkened background and the suffering rendering of the expression recall life studies and copies of studies that many painters of the time created, inspired by famous prototypes. The paper, naturally patinated by time, contributes to creating that sense of antiquity characteristic of nineteenth-century sheets preserved in private or religious collections.

Overall, the work offers an intense and participatory image of the Passion, perfectly aligned with 19th-century graphic production.
19th-century sacred art of an academic style.
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