St. Thomas, from Christ and the Apostles

St. Thomas, from Christ and the Apostles by Lambert Suavius|Lambert Lombard|Jakob Andreas Fridrich the Elder

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

49.95.105

About the Artist

Lambert Suavius|Lambert Lombard|Jakob Andreas Fridrich the Elder · 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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