Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples, from "The Small Passion"
ca. 1508
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
sheet: 5 1/16 x 3 7/8 in. (12.8 x 9.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975
Accession Number
1975.653.31
Tags
Art Historical Context
In Albrecht Dürer's *Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples*, from his renowned series *The Small Passion (ca. 1508), we witness a poignant moment from the Gospel of John, where Jesus humbly kneels to wash his disciples' feet on the eve of his crucifixion. Created during the Northern Renaissance, this woodcut Dürer's mastery in depicting profound religious humility and human emotion. As one of 37 prints in the series—smaller and more intricate than his earlier *Large Passion*—it reflects the era's growing demand for affordable devotional art amid the Protestant Reformation's stirrings. Düre...
About the Artist
Albrecht Dürer · 1471–1528
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) stands as the preeminent figure of the Northern Renaissance and arguably the most influential artist in the history of printmaking. Born in Nuremberg on May 21, 1471, and dying in the same city on April 6, 1528, Dürer revolutionized the status of the artist in Northern Europe, transforming printmaking from a commercial craft into an independent fine art and establishing ...