Artist unknown
German, 15th century
The Man of Sorrows with Four Angels
INV-8623
Artist unknown
German, 15th centuryc. 1470
The Man of Sorrows with Four Angels
Artist unknown German, 15th century
relief etchingprint
Date
c. 1470
Medium
Metalcut from two plates in black and hand-colored on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Center plate: 25 × 18 cm (9 7/8 × 7 1/8 in.); Border and center plates: 33 × 25 cm (13 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 35 × 26.8 cm (13 13/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Clarence Buckingham Collection
This colorful metalcut was removed from a 1480 missal printed by Bartholomew Gothan and Lucas Brandis in Magdeburg. That volume also included a Crucifixion and other images from the same anonymous artist’s set of large metalcuts, using the same separately cut border plate for each different center plate. That border, with the Evangelists in roundels at the corners, depicts a visionary cloudbank of a type also seen at the bottom of The Man of Sorrows still on its book board, which likely came from another missal, given its size.
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