St. Philip(?), standing with his left hand on his hip and his right hand resting on his head, masonry walls to his right and behind him, from "Christ and the Twelve Apostles"

St. Philip(?), standing with his left hand on his hip and his right hand resting on his head, masonry walls to his right and behind him, from "Christ and the Twelve Apostles" by Lambert Suavius

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 7 7/8 x 3 5/8 in. (20 x 9.2 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Accession Number

2012.136.712

Tags

MenSaints

About the Artist

Lambert Suavius · 15101576

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...

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