# Christ Carrying the Cross, in Now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Martin Schongauer made this in about 1475–80, aged about 20. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> A great procession winds across the sheet towards Calvary, with soldiers on horseback, dogs and onlookers surrounding Christ, who has fallen beneath the weight of the cross.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1475–80
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: Sheet: 11 3/8 × 16 7/8 in. (28.9 × 42.9 cm)
- Type: Prints
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35.27
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Martin Schongauer](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/martin-schongauer), German, c. 1450–1491

Schongauer, the son of a goldsmith, worked in Colmar in Alsace and was both a painter and the most accomplished engraver of fifteenth-century northern Europe.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Martin Schongauer](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/martin-schongauer?hang=749) (4 works)
- [More Northern Renaissance](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/northern-renaissance?hang=749) (62 works)
- [15th-century Germany](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/15-germany?hang=749) (7 works)

## Get it

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