Crucified (Pacheco)

Christ is depicted dead, frontal, with head lowered and fastened with four nails. Flat cross, with subpedaneum and sign above in Hebrew, Greek and Latin, with unusual wording (“HIC EST IESVS NAZARAENVS/ REX IVDAEORVM”). As Manuel Gómez-Moreno wrote when he made it known, it is painted “on a cedar board […], whose primer is white and very fine plaster; everything is lightly sketched in half color on top, and then the paint barely leaves traces of the brush, in a very tenuous extended mass and with skillful fiemeza”. Acquired in Madrid in 1916, by Mr. Manuel Gómez-Moreno, through Mr. Vives. / Extracted from: A.A.V.V.: Instituto Gómez-Moreno (catalog). Granada, 1992, p. 123.Bibliography: Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez: “El Cristo de San Plácido. Pacheco takes a discovery that Velázquez, Cano and Zurbarán had with him”, Boletín de la Sociedad Española de Excursiones, T. XXIV, third quarter, 1916, pp. 177-188.