忧患之子（拉丁语《武加大译本》：vir dolorum；英语：Man of Sorrows；德语：Schmerzensmann）出现在《希伯来圣经》中的《以赛亚书》第53章第3节，被基督徒认为是对弥赛亚的预言。

祂诚然担当了我们的忧患，背负了我们的痛苦；我们却以为祂受责罚，被神击打苦待了。 那知祂为我们的过犯受创，为我们的罪孽压伤；因祂受的刑罚我们得平安，因祂受的鞭伤我们得医治。

在欧洲，13世纪起，忧患之子像得到发展，在欧洲北部尤其流行。通常表现耶稣赤裸上身，带着受难的伤口，尤其是手部和身体一侧，通常戴着荆棘冠冕，有时还有天使出现。该图像持续传播，其复杂性的发展一直延续到文艺复兴之后，但是其许多艺术形式，是中世纪晚期虔诚的最精确的视觉表现。。它和圣母怜子图（Pietà），是这个时期最流行的献身图像（Andachtsbilder）类型的图像。

Man of Sorrows is paramount among the prefigurations of the Messiah identified by Christians in the passages of Isaiah 53 (Servant songs) in the Hebrew Bible. It is also an iconic devotional image that shows Christ, usually naked above the waist, with the wounds of his Passion prominently displayed on his hands and side (the "ostentatio vulnerum", a feature of other standard types of image), often crowned with the Crown of Thorns and sometimes attended by angels. It developed in Europe from the 13th century, and was especially popular in Northern Europe.