Death of St. Peter and St. Paul (Saint Pierre et Saint Paul dans le tombeau)
Claude Vignon|François Langlois
17th century
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 7 15/16 x 5 11/16 in. (20.1 x 14.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.1981
Tags
CorpsesSaint PaulSaint PeterAngels
About the Artist
Claude Vignon|François Langlois · 1593–1670
Claude Vignon was born on May 19, 1593, in Tours, France, into a wealthy family, and he died on May 10, 1670, in Paris. He received his initial artistic training in Paris under the Mannerist painter Jacob Bunel, a key figure in the Second School of Fontainebleau. Vignon traveled extensively in his youth, likely visiting Rome as early as 1609–1610 and settling there by 1616–1619 among the French ar...