Jésus sera en agonie jusqu’à la fin du monde… (Jesus Will Be in Anguish Until the End of the World…)

Georges Rouault

1922

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In the setting of a ruined building with a desert landscape in the distance, the Virgin mary kneels before the Christ Child.
An empty canoe is tied to the bank of a canal. A row of trees populate the opposite bank.
A bull standing off-center is being surrounded and attacked by six dogs while a man on the right in a feathered hat rides away from the viewer on horseback.
Folio 92 from Sebastian Brant, Stultifera Navis (Ship of Fools), second Latin edition, Johannes Bergmann von Olpe, Basel, August 1497 [first edition 1494]