Carrying The Cross - 17th Century Flemish school

A beautiful Flemish school, follower of Frans Francken, whose iconographic codes are clearly found, both in the expression and richness of the characters as well as in the chromatic palette.
The procession is on its way to the summit of the hill of Golgotha where the erect crosses await their victims, a weeping crowd follows Christ. Simon from the city of Cyrene helps him carry the heavy Cross. The fifth station of the Stations of the Cross traditionally illustrates this episode taken up in the Gospel according to Saint Luke "While they were taking Jesus, they took a certain Simon of Cyrene, who was returning from the fields and loaded him with the cross so that he could door behind Jesus »
Dimensions of the work 93 cm by 75 Dimensions of the whole 108 by 89
Beautiful condition, old restoration. In a later gilded wood frame with several small shocks.