2-713-903 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Agony in the Garden', 1521, (1943). Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane the night before his crucifixion. He lies prostrate with arms outstretched, in a premonition of his death, while his disciples, whom he had requested to keep watch with him, sleep under a tree. Drawing in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. From "Europäische Handzeichnungen", (Five Hundred Years of European Drawings), by Bernhard Degenhart. [Atlantis-Verlag Berlin, Zürich, 1943]