Ecce homo (Rückseite: Hl. Petrus)

Sebald Bopp's Ecce Homo — Christ shown to the crowd by Pilate with the words 'Behold the man' — is among the most intimate and devotionally focused of Passion subjects, isolating the humiliated Christ in his crown of thorns and purple robe for direct contemplative viewing. The reverse panel showing Saint Peter demonstrates the standard Bavarian altarpiece practice of painting devotional images on both sides of panels, doubling the devotional content within a single physical object. Bopp's several surviving panels in the Bavarian State Painting Collections form an important document of late fifteenth-century Munich-area devotional painting.

Christ is shown from the waist up, crown of thorns on his head, in the half-length devotional format that maximizes the viewer's face-to-face encounter with his suffering. Bopp uses warm flesh tones against a plain background. The wounds and crown are rendered with Flemish attention to physical detail without veering into brutal excess.