| A nimbed Bernard in a brown cowl receives the body of a lifeless Christ with his arms detached from the Cross in an Amplexus scene more reminiscent of a deposition. The scene is set in a rocky landscape with delicate flowers in the foreground and pheasants and deer grazing in the distance and with a view of the abbey of Bebenhausen surrounded by water in which some monks are fishing from a boat. The scene is witnessed by a kneeling abbot of Bebenhausen in a black cowl with his hands clasped in prayer and gazing up at the Crucified. He has a red book under one arm. On the ground in the front are an open book and a small white dog, and behind the Cross Bernard's crozier lies on the ground.
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