Tag: Henry Le Jeune

01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Henry Le Jeune’s Thy Will be Done, with Footnotes #201

Aug 30, 2023

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Sold for GBP 8,820 in Jul 2022 This depiction of the Agony in the Garden, on the Mount of Olives, in which, between the Last Supper and his arrest, Christ retired to pray. ‘Agony’ in this context derives from the Greek meaning a contest, and Le Jeune, through juxtaposing the solitary figure of Christ against the…