Christ Asleep during the Tempest is an oil on canvas painting by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix, executed c.

[1] The painting is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

[2][3] Delacroix painted at least six versions of the biblical story of Christ sleeping during a storm while on the Sea of Galilee.

[3][4] After seeing the painting in 1886, while it was on display in Paris, Vincent van Gogh wrote: "Christ’s boat—I’m talking about the blue and green sketch with touches of purple and red and a little lemon yellow for the halo, the aureole—speaks a symbolic language through color itself.

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