# Man Meditating [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GERHAERT VAN LEYDEN, Nicolaus]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Red sandstone, height 44 cm ## Commentary Man Meditating c. 1467 Red sandstone, height 44 cm Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg Outstanding among the strong personalities directing the numerous sculpture workshops in the Germanic countries is an artist of Dutch origin: Nicolaus Gerhaert van Leyden. His activity is well-authenticated at Trier, Vienna and Strasbourg between 1463 and 1473. His art owes a great deal to Sluter, but has a more marked expressive note. In this etched face and tensed hands the artist has succeeded in rendering the most intense inner emotion. The spirituality emanating from this physically stricken being demonstrates the wide scope of its author's talent. ## Related artworks - [Christ Child with Grapes]() - [Epitaph of a Canon]() - [Man Meditating]() - [Standing Virgin and Child]() - [The Virgin and Child with St Anne]() - [Tomb of Archbishop Jakob von Sierck]() - [Woman's Head]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()