The motif depicts Christ, crowned with a crown of thorns and clad in a scarlet robe, as the Roman soldiers mock him as the King of the Jews (Mt 27, 27 – 30, Mk 15, 17 – 20, Jn 19, 2–3). The painting is one of a group of works which were attributed to Trophime Bigot; the composition, the use of light and the types of faces of the figures are very characteristic. The inferior quality of the picture, which was perhaps damaged sometime in the past, does not exclude the possibility that this is a painting from the artist’s workshop or a good contemporary copy.