Saint Susanna in an interior holding an open book in her left hand, a palm in her right, a landscape visible through a window at right and at bottom center a coat of arms
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/16 × 7 11/16 in. (29.1 × 19.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.3772
Tags
About the Artist
Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Alessandro Alberti · 1553–1615
Cherubino Alberti (1553–1615), also known by his birth name Zaccaria Mattia, was an Italian engraver and painter active in Rome during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Born in Borgo San Sepolcro in Tuscany, he came from an artistically inclined family and received training that equipped him for work in both painting and the reproductive graphic arts. It was as a printmaker, however,...