The Bodies of Saints Peter and Paul
Claude Vignon
1620
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 19.7 × 14.6 cm (7 3/4 × 5 3/4 in.) sheet: 19.8 × 15 cm (7 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2012.92.618
About the Artist
Claude Vignon · 1593–1670
Claude Vignon was born on May 19, 1593, in Tours, France, into a wealthy family, and he died on May 10, 1670, in Paris. He received his initial artistic training in Paris under the Mannerist painter Jacob Bunel, a key figure in the Second School of Fontainebleau. Vignon traveled extensively in his youth, likely visiting Rome as early as 1609–1610 and settling there by 1616–1619 among the French ar...