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Ecce Homo, Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal Catholic church, Notre-Dame-de-l’Île-Perrot, 2011

Color photograph, close-up of a painting of a man looking to the heavens and wearing a crown of thorns on his head. The painting is in an oval frame sculpted out of wood and covered in gold leaf.

© Bernard Bourbonnais, 2011 – Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges

Ecce Homo is Latin for: “here is the man” as Ponce Pilate said when presenting Jesus, wearing a crown of thorns, to the crowd. This oil on canvas, attributed to Louis-Chrétien de Heer (1760-1808), was incorporated into the sculpted wood high relief decorated with gold leaf in the sanctuary of the church. These were done by Louis-Xavier Leprohon (1795-1876) who also designed and built the wood panels surrounding the sanctuary, as well as the rosettes of the dome in 1828. The canvas was restored in 2009.