Darstellung Christi vor Pilatus (Ecce Homo)

The Master of the Morrison Triptych was an anonymous Flemish or Brabantine painter of the early sixteenth century named for a triptych in the collection of Alfred Morrison. His Ecce Homo — Pilate presenting the scourged Christ to the Jerusalem crowd — was a subject of intense devotional focus in the early sixteenth century, when the spread of the imago pietatis tradition and the influence of the Passion meditation texts of the devotio moderna made Christ's suffering the central object of northern European piety. The subject demanded crowd drama and the study of varied emotional response to the spectacle of suffering.

The master stages the Ecce Homo on a raised platform, creating a horizontal division between the platform with Christ and Pilate above, and the surging crowd below — a compositional solution that creates legible theatrical hierarchy. The crowd's faces are characterised with the range of expression from contempt to horror that makes the subject a study in human response to injustice.