Christ kneeling and washing St Peter's feet, after Dürer
Marcantonio Raimondi|Albrecht Dürer
ca. 1500–1534
Medium
Engraving; third state of three
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/8 × 4 1/16 in. (13 × 10.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Henry Walters, 1917
Accession Number
17.37.244
Tags
ChristApostlesSaint PeterWashing
About the Artist
Marcantonio Raimondi|Albrecht Dürer · 1475–1534
Marcantonio Raimondi (c. 1480–1534), born near Bologna, Italy, emerged as one of the Renaissance's premier engravers, revolutionizing printmaking through his mastery of reproductive techniques. He trained in the workshop of the goldsmith, painter, and niellist Francesco Francia, whose influence is evident in his early engravings, such as the goldsmith-like shading in *Pyramus and Thisbe* (1505), h...