Simon Of Cyrene Helping Christ - 17th Century Flemish School.

This oil on canvas depicts Simon of Cyrene helping Christ carry the Cross. The fifth station of the Stations of the Cross traditionally illustrates this episode taken up in the Gospel according to Saint Luke "While they were taking Jesus, they took a certain Simon of Cyrene, who was returning from the fields, and loaded him with the cross so that he the door behind Jesus » Our 17th century oil on canvas has been re-canvased and is in good condition. Its polychromy gives pride of place to red and shades of green.
Blackened wooden frame and Marie-Louise velvet. Dimensions of 64 cm by 49 cm.
Dimensions of the whole 80 cm by 65.
Table appraised by Mr René MILLET