Christ Presented to the People
Medium
Drypoint; eighth state of eight
Dimensions
Sheet: 14 x 17 15/16 in. (35.6 x 45.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941
Accession Number
41.1.36
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the heart of Rembrandt van Rijn's masterful printmaking career, *Christ Presented to the People (1655) captures dramatic biblical moment known as Ecce Homo, where Pontius Pilate presents the bound Christ to a jeering crowd. Created during Rembrandt's mature Baroque period, this drypoint etching exemplifies his profound ability to convey human emotion and spiritual tension through a dense gathering of figures—men pressing forward in a chaotic mass, their faces etched with curiosity, disdain, and fervor. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, this generous ...
About the Artist
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) · 1606–1669
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) stands as one of the greatest visual artists in the history of Western art and the most important Dutch painter of the 17th century. Born in Leiden to a prosperous miller's family, Rembrandt transformed painting through his revolutionary use of light and shadow, his psychological depth in portraiture, and his elevation of etching to a fine art. His approx...