St. Bartholomew, from Christ and the Apostles
Medium
Engraving; backed with a print by J. A. Fridrich
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.95.104
Art Historical Context
**St. Bartholomew, fromChrist and the Apostles***Step into the world of 16th-century Flemish printmaking with this striking engraving of St. Bartholomew, one of Twelve Apostles. Created between 1530 and 1576 by Lambert Suav, Lambert Lombard, and Andreas Fridrich the Elder it forms part of a devotional series depicting Christ and his followers. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, this work entered the collection through The Elisha Whittelsey Fund in 1949, the Met's commitment to preserving Renaissance-era prints. Engravings like this were revolutionary in...
About the Artist
Lambert Suavius|Lambert Lombard|Jakob Andreas Fridrich the Elder · 1510–1576
Lambert Suavius (c.1510–c.1574/76), whose Flemish family name was Zutman, was born in Liège, in the southern Netherlands. He was the son of an episcopal goldsmith, Henri Zutman, and from his father's craft environment he inherited a training in the precise handling of metal and an appreciation for fine detail work. He became closely associated with his brother-in-law Lambert Lombard, the leading a...