Jesus Christ Parting from the Virgin to go and Suffer Death

Prints and Drawings

1505/36; printed 1682/1709

Daniel Hopfer, I
German, 1470-1536

While artists often portrayed the Virgin lamenting her son’s suffering in Passion cycles, Daniel Hopfer I’s visionary image depicts the Virgin sobbing before Christ’s betrayal, scourging, and crucifixion. Knowing her son will die a gruesome death, she feels physical pain at his departure. Hopfer literally depicted the Virgin’s heart-wrenching pain as the hilt of a sword projecting from her chest. This rugged etching pitilessly shows an aged Virgin clinging to her grown son as tears roll down her face.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Daniel Hopfer, I
Title: Jesus Christ Parting from the Virgin to go and Suffer Death
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Artist's working dates 1490–1536
Medium: Etching in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions: Plate: 28.7 × 21.7 cm (11 5/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Charles Deering Collection
Reference Number: 1927.3523
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Metzger 16 III/IV

Hollstein 13.II Funck

Bartsch VIII, 474.8 II/Funck

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