Clothing the Naked
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Clothing the Naked, painted around 1661 by the Flemish artist Michiel Sweerts, depicts one of the Seven Acts of Mercy long promoted in Catholic devotional teaching. Rather than the crowded, anecdotal scenes typical of the theme, Sweerts reduces it to a single, fraught encounter between two figures: one richly dressed, the other nude and visibly wary of the garment being offered to him — mercy staged as an uneasy transaction between strangers rather than a comfortable act of charity.
Sweerts, from Brussels, was active in Amsterdam in the years around this painting, living a life of regular fasting and devotion; he would join a missionary expedition to Persia the following year, from which he was later dismissed for erratic behavior. That same austere, searching temperament runs through this canvas — muted color, sculptural figures, and a psychological tension rare in religious painting of the period.
Now held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1984), this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Michiel Sweerts |
| Year | ca. 1661 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 32 1/4 x 45 in. (81.9 x 114.3 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 40 × 30 cm (16″ × 12″) |
| Medium | 50 × 40 cm (20″ × 16″) |
| Large | 90 × 60 cm (36″ × 24″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
