Heinrich Hofmann1858

The Arrest of Christ

In the garden of Gethsemane the crowd comes with swords and clubs, and Judas betrays Jesus with a kiss as he is seized and led away (Matthew 26). By the German painter Heinrich Hofmann.

The Arrest of Christ by Heinrich Hofmann depicting Matthew 26:47
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Depicted passages

Matthew 26:47-56Primary
Portrait of Heinrich Hofmann

About Heinrich Hofmann

1824-1911 · German

Heinrich Hofmann was a German academic painter whose devotional images of Christ — most famously Christ in Gethsemane and Christ in the Temple — became some of the most widely reproduced religious paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries.

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