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Nothing is recorded of the panel's commission or early owners.  Given the remnants of hinges on its frame, the work probably formed the left hand side of a diptych of which the opposite panel is now lost, possibly split up during the 18th century when composite works of this era were out of fashion and were broken up to be sold as individual easel pictures. The Man of Sorrows is thought to have been created as part of a series of small paintings for the Haarlem Commandery of the Knights of St John, a group of works that explore a range of human emotions. That group of paintings originally hung in the organisation's Church of St. John in Haarlem.
Commandery of the Knights of St John Man of Sorrows Haarlem left