The Man of Sorrows with Hands Bound

1512

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

The image shows a man standing upright with his head slightly tilted to the side. His hands are crossed at his waist. He has a solemn expression on his face, with a full beard and curly hair falling to his shoulders. He wears a crown of thorns. His upper body is bare, revealing a muscular chest, while a draped garment covers the lower part of his body. Beside him is a gnarled, leafless tree to his right. The backdrop features a simple landscape with undulating terrain and distant hills, creating a desolate outdoor setting. To the left of the man, there is a faint sketch of landforms on the ground, with a small inscription at the top left corner of the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 11.8 × 7.5 cm (4 5/8 × 2 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1945.5.64

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 21

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Barnard [d. 1784], London (similar to Lugt 1420); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1945; gift to NGA, 1945.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1932

  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 64.

Inscriptions

in plate, upper left: 1512 / AD [artist's monogram]; recto, top center, in graphite [?] by a later hand: 115[?] [faint/possibly erased]; verso, top right, in brown ink by a later hand: J.B.; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: LRG [?]

Markings

J.B. in brown ink at top right of verso, close to Lugt 1420

Watermarks

bull's head with flower (fragment)

Wikidata ID

Q18338523

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