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Georges Rouault
French, 1871-1958 
Le Christ en Croix (Christ on the Cross), 1936
Color etching and aquatint
© 2026 Georges Rouault / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Stretched on the cross, Christ's body fills the entire frame of this luminous print. Broad shards of color are held in place by Georges Rouault’s characteristic black contours, a structure that recalls the stained-glass craft he learned as a young apprentice. A painter at heart, Rouault used color aquatint which can be applied with brushes, allowing him to build tone through overlapping hues. These translucent layers of color give us the impression that light is shining through the surface of the paper, rather than printed on it. The result balances modern expressiveness with the devotional gravity reminiscent of Gothic church windows and giving voice to Rouault's devout Catholicism.