# Christ Carrying the Cross, in El Greco

El Greco painted this in about 1577–87, aged about 33. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> Christ embraces the cross against an empty sky, his eyes raised heavenward and his long, slender fingers resting lightly on the wood. El Greco strips away the crowd and the road to Calvary found in most depictions of the subject, leaving a single half-length figure for private meditation.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1577–87
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 41 5/16 x 31 1/8 in. (105 x 79 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.145
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[El Greco](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/el-greco), Spanish, 1541–1614

El Greco, “the Greek”, was born in Crete and trained in the Byzantine icon tradition before studying Venetian painting and working in Rome.

7 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [El Greco's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-el-greco?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Spanish Golden Age](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/spanish-golden-age?hang=749) (21 works)
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## Get it

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