Why it matters
Christ sits on a rock in a pale, stony desert, reflecting on his temptation. Kramskoi rejected the professorship the Academy offered him for the painting.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1872.
- Pavel Tretyakov bought it the same year.
- An earlier vertical version of 1867 was unsuccessful.
Based on the Wikipedia article Christ in the Desert (CC BY-SA 4.0).
