drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5218.56
- Description
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The Man of Sorrows with the instruments of the Passion; whole-length figure of Christ seated on the edge of a stone tomb, drapery across his lap is falling onto the floor at r, his left hand is raised in a sign of blessing and his right arm is resting across his lap, clouds behind. 1500
Metalpoint, heightened with white bodycolour (partly oxidised), on a light red prepared ground
- Production date
- 1490-1500 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 263 millimetres
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Width: 188 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Winzinger attributes this drawing to Rueland Frueauf the Elder (c. 1440/5-1507) on the basis of a comparison with this artist's painting,'The Man of Sorrows' in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (inv. no. 10691). This painting had been attributed to him by E. Buchner ('Pantheon', xxxi, 1943, pp. 73ff.) who dated it shortly after the altar wings from Salzburg of 1490 and 1491, now in Vienna (Baum, 'Österreichische Galerie', nos. 48-54). The comparison between the drawing and the Munich painting is not, however, convincing in that the former totally lacks the refinement of vision and technique present in the latter. It is most unlikely that the artist who produced this drawing would have been capable of producing the painted 'Man of Sorrows'. Winzinger appears to be pointing us geographically to the right region, that is, either around Salzburg or in Upper Bavaria, but he overestimates the qualities of this drawing.' Suckale attributes this drawing to the workshop of the Nuremberg painter, Hans von Pleydenwurff, and associates it with drawings by a master who signs himself 'EP' with a date of around 1490.
Lit: F. Winzinger, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Kunst und Denkmalpflege, Vienna, xix, 1965, pp. 147ff, fig. 146; J.Rowlands, 'German Drawings in the British Museum, London, 1993, cat.no 480; R.Suckale,'Die Erneuerung der Malkunst vor Dürer', Petersberg, 2009, vol. 1, p.247
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5218.56
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: C,07.56