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Description
In this biblical scene based on an engraving of a 1621 painting by the Italian artist Guercino, an angry crowd of Roman soldiers has descended on the Garden of Gethsemane, eager to arrest Christ. This work is from the Cuzco School, a Peruvian movement that combined Catholic imagery with an indigenous Quechua palette. It was owned by Manuel Ortiz de Zevallos y García, a Peruvian politician. After the government declined to purchase his 637-piece collection, it was sold off. An incomplete catalog of the collector’s paintings remains, suggesting the basis for a Peruvian museum that nearly was.