Cristo_despues_de_la_Flagelacion_Murillo_1665

''Christ after the Flagellation'' is an oil on canvas painting by Murillo, created ''c.'' 1665, now in the

Museum of Fine Arts Boston The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 work ...

, for which it was bought in 1953 via the Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund. The artist also produced a slightly later version of the scene, now in Illinois. It first appears in the written record in the collection of Noël Desenfans, at the sale of whose collection in 1802 it was sold for £9 18 shillings, probably to Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Brun, then from Le Brun's collection to Pierre-Joseph Lafontaine the following year. It passed through various British art dealers during the 1850s and 1860s before being bought by Francis Cook, 1st Baronet in 1868. It passed down through the Cook family until being entrusted to the trustees of the Cook Collection on the 3rd Baronet's death in 1939. The trustees sold it to the US art dealer Jacques Seligmann and Co in 1952, who sold it on to its present owner the following year.

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Religious paintings by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1665 paintings Paintings of the Passion of Jesus Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston {{1660s-painting-stub