Circle of Quentin Metsys (Leuven 1466-1530 Kiel, near Antwerp)

The composition for this panel derives from an example by Quentin Metsys (Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum). It is uncertain whether the painter originally intended it to be paired with a Virgin in Prayer, as was often the case in early Flemish depictions of Christ as the Saviour of the World and is the case for the panel in the Koninklijk Museum, or whether it had been created as an individual work.