The Man of Sorrows with Arms Outstretched

c. 1500

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This print shows a man standing next to a large wooden pole, with his arms bent and extended outward, his palms facing up. The man has pale skin, a thin beard, and long, wavy hair, and he his wearing a crown of thorny branches on his head. He has deep set eyes that look upward, prominent cheekbones, and an open, downturned mouth. He is bare-chested, with a simple cloth around his waist. By his feet are with a skull, a bundle of sticks, and a long strip of fabric. He has holes in his palms and on the top of his feet, and a wound in his side. The sky behind him is blank, and the print is on beige paper.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 11.8 x 7.1 cm (4 5/8 x 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3478

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 20

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1941; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1999

  • "Fate, Fortune, Nemesis: Albrecht Durer at the Century's End", Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1999.

2011

  • Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese: The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.

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. 26.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom right: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B20; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C17540

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338439

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