1773
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
The Baptism of Christ is a 1773 ink by Martin Johann Schmidt, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a scene from the Bible, with Jesus Christ standing in the middle. He's wearing a loincloth and has his right hand outstretched. There's a dove flying above him, and a man on the left is leaning forward, looking at Jesus. The background is filled with lots of angels and other figures. The scene is crowded, but it's easy to see what's happening. Jesus is being baptized, and the dove represents the Holy Spirit. The man on the left might be John the Baptist, who baptized Jesus. If you want to learn more about this kind of art, you should check out the Romanticism movement.
Martin Johann Schmidt, called Kremser Schmidt or Kremserschmidt, (25 September 1718 – 28 June 1801), was one of the outstanding Austrian painters of the late Baroque/Rococo along with Franz Anton Maulbertsch.
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