Mattia Preti, 1663 - Pilate Washing His Hands - fine art print

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Original information about the work of art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The painting illustrates the episode in the Gospel of Matthew, in which Pontius Pilate, after having tried to save Christ from death, washed his hands and declared "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person." The canvas is mentioned in two letters addressed by Preti to the Sicilian collector Antonio Ruffo in 1663. It was not purchased by Ruffo—who owned Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer—but may have been in the collection of the Rospigliosi family in Rome. Preti moved to Malta in 1661 and the picture dates from his stay on the island.

Background information on the artwork with the title "Pilate Washing His Hands"

This more than 350 year old piece of art was painted by the male Italian artist Mattia Preti in 1663. The more than 350 year-old original was painted with the size: 81 1/8 x 72 3/4 in (206,1 x 184,8 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the European painter as the technique for the artpiece. Today, the work of art is part of the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Bequest of Helena W. Charlton, by exchange, Gwynne Andrews, Marquand, Rogers, Victor Wilbour Memorial, and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds, and funds given or bequeathed by friends of the Museum, 1978 (license: public domain). The creditline of the artpiece is the following: Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Bequest of Helena W. Charlton, by exchange, Gwynne Andrews, Marquand, Rogers, Victor Wilbour Memorial, and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds, and funds given or bequeathed by friends of the Museum, 1978. What is more, the alignment is in portrait format with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which implies that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The artist, painter Mattia Preti was an artist, whose artistic style was mainly Baroque. The Italian artist was born in the year 1613 in Taverna, Catanzaro province, Calabria, Italy and died at the age of 86 in 1699.

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