DÜRER, Albrecht
(b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)

Study of a Man with a Drill

c. 1496
Pen and ink on paper, 251 x 151 mm
Musée Bonnat, Bayonne

This is a study for the lower right panel of The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden). The panel depicts the Nailing to the Cross, where a man in the centre is drilling a hole in the Cross.