Christ and the Adulteress (Titian, Vienna)

Not to be confused with Christ and the Adulteress (Titian, Glasgow).

Christ and the Adulteress
Year	c. 1520
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	82.5 cm × 136.5 cm (32.5 in × 53.7 in)
Location	Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna
Accession	GG_114

Christ and the Adulteress (German: Christus und die Ehebrecherin), also titled Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, or The Adulteress before Christ, is an oil painting by Titian, made about 1520, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, depicting Jesus and the woman taken in adultery.

Provenance

Carlo Ridolfi mentions having seen this picture in the Venetian studio of Bartolomeo della Nave. It formed part of the art collection of the Duke of Hamilton from 1638 to 1649. It then entered the collection Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria.

Copies

• 
  Copy by Teniers after Titian, c. 1655–1656 (16.9 x 22.5 cm)
• 
  Print by Jan van Troyen after Teniers for the Theatrum Pictorium, 1673
• 
  Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels, (Vienna, c. 1650)
• 
  Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Painting Gallery in Brussels (Prado, 1651)
• 
  Gallery of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brussels (Petworth, 1651)

See also

• List of works by Titian

Sources

• Ricketts, Charles (1910). Titian. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. pp. 24, 35, 146, 176.
• "Christus und die Ehebrecherin". Kunsthistorisches Museum. Retrieved 27 October 2022.