Andalusian school; second half of the 17th century. ‘Ecce homo’. Oil on canvas. It has restorations. Measurements: 53,5 x 41,5 cm. This devotional canvas, painted for a private altar or chapel, depicts the theme of Ecce Homo, which is very common in this type of painting. The composition is simple and clear, with Christ's face in the foreground, and the absence of narrative details enhances the expressive power and pathos, designed to move the soul of the faithful who pray before the image, in a tremendist sense very typical of the Baroque period in Catholic countries. The theme of Ecce Homo belongs to the Passion cycle and precedes the episode of the Crucifixion. Following this iconography, Jesus is presented at the moment when the soldiers mock him, after crowning him with thorns, dressing him in a purple tunic (here red, the symbolic colour of the Passion) and placing a reed in his hand, kneeling down and exclaiming ‘Hail, King of the Jews’. The words ‘Ecce Homo’ are those pronounced by Pilate when presenting Christ to the crowd; their translation is ‘behold the man’, a phrase by which he mocks Jesus and implies that Christ's power was no match for that of the rulers who were judging him there.