Man of Sorrows, from Speculum Passionis Domini Nostri Ihesu Christi
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 9/16 × 4 15/16 in. (16.7 × 12.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.650.218
Tags
SadnessAngelsChrist
About the Artist
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)|Ulrich Pinder · 1484–1545
Hans Baldung Grien (1484/85–1545), born in Schwäbisch Gmünd into an erudite family of jurists and physicians, forsook academia to pursue art. His early training around 1500 took place in the Upper Rhineland, likely Strasbourg, before he apprenticed under Albrecht Dürer in Nuremberg from 1503 to 1507. There, the young artist honed his skills in painting, printmaking, and stained glass, even managin...