Title
Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane
painter
Flandes, Juan de (Posible procedencia de los Países Bajos, ca. 1465 - Palencia, ca. 1519)
Generic classification
PaintingObject
PaintingDate
ca. 1500Century
15th c.Cultural context / style
Flemish paintingMaterial
PanelTechnique
Oil PaintingIconography / Theme
Oración del Huerto de GetsemaníProvenance
Isabella I of Castile (Segovia, Spain)Current location
Private collection, Munich (Múnich, Germany)Object history
Listed as 'The Oratory of the Garden' in the 1505 estate sale of Isabella I of Castile possessions in Toro, it did not find a buyer at that time. Acquired along with thirty-one other panels from the collection by Philip I the Handsome during the Toro estate sale, he arranged for it to be sent to his sister, Margaret of Austria, in Mechelen.
Description
This painting is part of the Polyptych of Isabella I of Castile, which originally consisted of forty-seven small-format panels. It represents the Agony in the Garden, the moment when Jesus prays before being arrested. Juan de Flandes' Flemish training is evident in the meticulous detail with which the landscape is depicted.
Locations
ca. 1496 - ca. 1504
private collection
Isabella I of Castile, Segovia (Spain) *
1505
municipality
Toro, Toro (Spain)
ca. 1516 - ca. 1530
First half of the XXth c. - ca. 1930
private collection
Private collection, Switzerland, Switzerland (Switzerland) *
ca. 1930 - present
private collection
Private collection, Munich, Múnich (Germany) *
Record manager
Miguel Ángel ZalamaCitation:
Miguel Ángel Zalama, "Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane" in Nostra et Mundi. Cultural Heritage from Castile and Leon around the world, Fundación Castilla y León, 2025. https://inventario.nostraetmundi.com/en/work/17
Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane
Published in: Chiyo Ishikawa, The Retablo de Isabel la Católica by Juan de Flandes and Miche Sittow, Brepols, 2004.
Published in: Chiyo Ishikawa, The Retablo de Isabel la Católica by Juan de Flandes and Miche Sittow, Brepols, 2004.