Saint Martin Announcing to His Parents That He Will Become a Christian

Medium

Linen plain weave underlaid with linen plain weave and embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in split and stem stitches, laid work, and couching, including or nué

Dimensions

Diameter (above mount opening): 6 1/2 in. (16.5cm)

Classification

Textiles-Ecclesiastical

Culture

Flemish

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Accession Number

1975.1.1909

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