Saint Peter and Saint John Healing a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk (recto); pen and brown sketch of a right hand at upper left, and circle in red chalk at lower right (verso)
Dimensions
9 15/16 x 7 5/8in. (25.2 x 19.4cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mrs. Carl L. Selden Gift, in memory of Carl L. Selden, 1989
Accession Number
1989.94
Tags
About the Artist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · 1501–1547
Perino del Vaga, born Piero Bonaccorsi in 1501 near Florence, emerged as one of the most elegant painters of the Mannerist era. Orphaned early—his mother died when he was two months old and his father, a gambler turned soldier, left him in the care of a stepmother—Perino received an unconventional start, apprenticed first to a druggist and then to the mediocre Andrea de' Ceri. At age eleven, he en...