St. Peter, 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
49.95.100
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *St. Peter, from and the Apostles*, a 16th-century engraving to Lambert Suavius Lambert Lombard, or Jakob Fridrich the Elder (active 1530–76). Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, this print captures the revered apostle—holder of the keys to heaven—in a moment of solemn authority, reflecting the era's deep Catholic devotion amid the Reformation's upheavals. Crafted as an engraving, a revolutionary technique popularized in the Renaissance for its precision and reproducibility, the work allowed intricate details like St. Peter's flowing robes and exp...
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...