Saint Matthew and the Angel

Luca Cambiaso

1583–85

Saint Matthew and the Angel by Luca Cambiaso

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash over traces of brown chalk (?); squared in red chalk

Dimensions

9 7/16 x 6 3/8 in. (24 x 16.2 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Accession Number

1975.1.287

Tags

Saint MatthewAngels

About the Artist

Luca Cambiaso · 15271585

Luca Cambiaso (1527–1585) was an Italian painter and draftsman who dominated artistic life in Genoa during the second half of the sixteenth century and became one of the most innovative draftsmen of the Late Renaissance. Born in Moneglia near Genoa, he trained under his father, the painter Giovanni Cambiaso, and demonstrated precocious talent, reportedly completing his first public fresco commissi...

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