# Pilate Washing his Hands \(No. 9\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DÜRER, Albrecht]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Engraving, 117 x 75 mm ## Commentary Pilate Washing his Hands \(No. 9\) 1512 Engraving, 117 x 75 mm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Sheet No. 9 of the Engraved Passion. Golgotha is shown in the background. This scene is psychologically ineffective, almost like a surgeon washing his hands before an operation. The attention is drawn primarily to the young man pouring water and clad in a most peculiar costume. It is he who is in the limelight. The Moorish features of this young man are akin to some examples in Dürer's Dresden Sketchbook. ## Related artworks - [A Young Girl of Cologne and Dürer's Wife]() - [Abduction of a Woman]() - [Abduction of Proserpine on a Unicorn]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam \(detail\)]() - [Adam]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()