# Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, in Baroque and Rococo

Sebastiano Ricci painted this in the mid-1700s, aged about 66. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> The subject originates in the Gospel of John 7:53-8:11, where Pharisees bring a woman accused of adultery to Christ, attempting to trick him into disobeying the Old Testament precept that she be stoned.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: mid-1700s
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 54.6 x 64.8 x 8.9 cm (21 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.); Unframed: 34.6 x 43.5 cm (13 5/8 x 17 1/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.785
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Sebastiano Ricci](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/sebastiano-ricci), Italian, 1659–1734

1 works in the collection.

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