Influenced by mystical literature and the theater of mysteries, our composition depicts an affected Christ, marked by the Flagellation and awaiting his final torture. Born in the Brabant workshops, this iconography spread to the north and east of France in the 15th and 16th centuries, particularly in Champagne. It is there that our Christ would have been made in the years 1500-1525, brilliantly illustrating the “Beautiful 16th century” of Champagne, mixing Gothic heritage and Renaissance influences. Sharing many similarities with the famous Ecce Homo of Troyes Cathedral and even more with the Christ of Pity of the Saint-Alpin church in Châlons-en-Champagne, our sculpture reflects through its subtle implementation and its contained emotion the new directions of humanist sensitivity.
