St. Simon standing before an open book with the fingers of his left hand pressed onto the pages, his chin resting in his right hand, a shallow barrel vault with oculus beyond, from "Christ and the Twelve Apostles"

St. Simon standing before an open book with the fingers of his left hand pressed onto the pages, his chin resting in his right hand, a shallow barrel vault with oculus beyond, from "Christ and the Twelve Apostles" by Lambert Suavius

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 7 3/4 x 3 9/16 in. (19.7 x 9 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011

Accession Number

2012.136.711

Tags

BooksReadingSaints

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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