Carved around 1520 in the workshop of Peter Vischer the Elder in Nuremberg, the Trauernde Maria — the Mourning Madonna — stands in silent anguish, hands clasped at her breast, head tilted upward beneath a deeply folded veil, her pleated robe falling in the precise Gothic style of late German medieval woodcarving. This museum postcard, published by Kunstverlag Christof Müller of Nuremberg, reproduces the polychromed wood figure (Holzbildwerk, um 1520) held in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (German National Museum) in Nuremberg. The high-contrast black-and-white photograph isolates the sculpture dramatically against a dark ground, revealing the extraordinary textile illusionism of the carved drapery and the haunting emotional expressiveness of the upturned face — worn paint traces still visible at the eyes and cheeks. The verso identifies this as the "Nürnberger Madonna," direction and workshop of Peter Vischer d. Ä. (the Elder), circa 1520.