No, obviously not an icon, but certainly universally present in my unchurched but very Protestant upbringing(pm me if that doesn't make sense). I have seen it in a Catholic church at least once.
For me it is an image that evokes my childhood, but not a spiritual truth about Christ.
There is a recent painting that does convey a spiritual truth that I always find very moving. It breaks the rules of icons, I think, but it reminds me of God's love and tender care for us-it is an image of one man, clearly meant to be Jesus, holding up another man who is sagging in his arms. Jesus is holding the weary unfortunate man from behind, supporting him under the arms. He will lift Him and carry him like a child if the need arises, but at the moment portrayed in the painting He is giving the man both rest and strength. He looks like a man in a boxing ring who has fallen on the ropes, and Jesus is supporting him as the ropes would. Without the arms of Christ supporting him, the man would fall and looks unable to get back up on his own. I see myself in that man, the whole weight of my life sagging, pulling me down, yet being supported by Christ.
