Christ Carrying the Cross
Wolfgang Huber
16th century
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
7 3/4 x 5 15/16 in. (19.7 x 15.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Marianne Khuner, 1984
Accession Number
1984.371.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
CrossChrist
About the Artist
Wolfgang Huber · 1485–1553
**Wolf Huber (c. 1485 – 3 June 1553)** was an Austrian-German painter, printmaker, and architect who spent most of his career in Passau, Germany, as a leading figure of the Danube school. Born in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, he had relocated to Passau by 1515 and quickly established himself as a mature artist. He was born into a family of artists and was widely believed to be related to the painter Han...