Le Mas d’Agenais is a picturesque village overlooking the Garonne River, approximately halfway between the cities of Toulouse and Bordeaux. Its small parish church, Église Saint Vincent, is the unlikely home of a painting produced in 1631 by Rembrandt. Measuring 100 by 73 centimeters (about 39 by 29 inches), the oil-on-panel artwork depicts a tormented Christ on the cross set against a dark landscape. Stylistically, the work is similar to the Passion series of paintings produced around the same time for Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange. The identity of the…
