The small painting on copper was presented to Bazuin & de Blécourt by a private collector with the request to carry out a limited investigation on the origin.

An image of Ecce Homo is often part of the Passion cycle. The pictorial tradition shows that the scenes from the Passion are not strictly limited to specific images. Usually the Passion starts with the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and ends with the descent of the Holy Spirit at Whitsun. Often a total number of twelve images is found but the number is not fixed. Within the Passion Ecce Homo; ‘behold the man’, is the moment when Pontius Pilate presents Jesus to the people after he has been flagellated. Usually a Passion cycle was made for monasteries or churches and occasionally for a retable. Isolated images of the Passion were sometimes used for private devotion.

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