The Arrest of Christ, c.1628/30 Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
Location: Prado Museum Madrid SpainOriginal Size: 344 x 249 cm
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Painted by European Аrtists with Academic Education
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+ 4 cm (1.6") Margins for Stretching
Creation Time: 8-9 Weeks
Creation Process
We create our paintings with museum quality and covering the highest academic standards. Once we get your order, it will be entirely hand-painted with oil on canvas. All the materials we use are the highest level, being totally artist graded painting materials and linen canvas.
We will add 1.6" (4 cm) additional blank canvas all over the painting for stretching.
High quality and detailing in every inch are time consuming. The reproduction of Sir Anthony van Dyck also needs time to dry in order to be completely ready for shipping, as this is crucial to not be damaged during transportation.
Based on the size, level of detail and complexity we need 8-9 weeks to complete the process.
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We not stretch and frame our oil paintings due to several reasons:
Painting reproduction is a high quality expensive product, which we cannot risk to damage by sending it being stretched.
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Van Dyck, still a very young artist, channels his inner Rubens here, but there's a maturity simmering under the surface, a sense of restraint despite the fury. The colors are dark and brooding, drenched in deep blues and blood-soaked reds. There's a chiaroscuro at play - not quite Caravaggesque, but certainly leaning on those dramatic contrasts between light and shadow. Christ’s robe, with that rich, velvety red, serves as a visual anchor amidst the frenzy of writhing bodies and flailing limbs.
Compositionally, van Dyck orchestrates a perfect storm. The torches light the soldiers’ faces, casting wild shadows that leap off the canvas, as they lean into the action. The figures tumble toward Christ like a wave, the chaos heightened by the twisted posture of the fallen figure in the foreground, perhaps one of the most Rubens-like elements of the piece. The flow is all forward motion, yet Christ stands firm - the eye is led straight to His calm, almost sorrowful expression, as though He knows that this is simply the next act in a drama that has already been written.
What’s remarkable here is how van Dyck manages to capture both the raw, kinetic energy of the moment and the deeper emotional weight. It’s more than just an arrest - it’s a clash between earthly chaos and divine peace, rendered with the bold brushstrokes and sumptuous colors of a young artist just beginning to carve out his own identity.
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Commissioned in 1620, this work is of Rubensian inspiration and shows the prodigious ability and extraordinary talent of the 20-year-old artist. Such mimicry did not, however, encourage the development of van Dyck's original genius, which expanded only with his visit to Italy and the consequent definition of his views and his style. In constructing the scene of the arrest, the artist (as revealed in preparatory drawings) proceeded in a crescendo of impetuosity that led to the image of the savage surprise by night and the rushing of the howling unbridled group upon the calm, serene figures of Christ and His disciples.
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