The Resurrection

Adriaen van der Werff completed the oil-on-panel painting The Resurrection in 1713. The work was commissioned by Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, who also served as its initial owner. Following its creation, the painting entered the collection of the Elector Palatine, specifically becoming part of the Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz collection housed in the Electoral Gallery in Düsseldorf. It is now held by the Bavarian State Painting Collections and displayed at the Alte Pinakothek.

The Resurrection is housed in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, where it is catalogued under the inventory number of the Bavarian State Painting Collections. It entered the collection of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, who commissioned the work in 1713;. The painting was displayed in the Electoral Gallery in Düsseldorf before being transferred to the Alte Pinakothek, and it has been part of the museum’s permanent exhibition of religious art since its acquisition.

Adriaen van der Werff's The Resurrection, completed in 1713, exemplifies the artist's high Baroque religious style within the collections of the Bavarian State Painting Collections. Originally commissioned by Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, the work entered the Electoral Gallery Dusseldorf before finding its current home in the Alte Pinakothek. The painting depicts the Resurrection of Jesus on an oil-on-panel support measuring 82 cm in height and 58 cm in width.

As a religious genre piece, it reflects the devotional tastes and patronage networks of the early eighteenth-century Electorate of the Palatinate.

Adriaen van der Werff’s The Resurrection (1713) is an oil painting that presents the biblical moment of Christ’s rising from the tomb. Executed in the early eighteenth century, the work resides in Munich’s Alte Pinakothek, reflecting the artist’s mature period when he turned to grand religious narratives after a career focused on portraiture and mythological subjects.