Christ hangs on the cross in a Breton landscape, his body yellow like autumn fields. Women kneel nearby in traditional dress. The scene is both local and timeless, as if the Passion has entered rural memory. Gauguin makes faith less historical than psychological, something a community imagines in its own colors.

Oil on canvas with strong outlines, flat areas of yellow, and simplified rural forms. Natural color gives way to symbolic color.

Yellow links Christ to harvest, suffering, and spiritual intensity. Breton women connect biblical sacrifice to local devotion.

Gauguin worked in Brittany among artists interested in folk culture, Catholic ritual, and anti-modern spirituality.

The painting helped establish non-natural color as a modern language of feeling and belief.