drawing;
cartoon
- Museum number
- 1887,0613.65
- Description
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St Paul (The Sacrifice at Lystra): fragment of a cartoon for tapestry of the History of St Paul; half-length, with long beard, gesturing with his left hand and looking up to right
Brush drawing in brown ink with distemper, over black chalk, pricked for transfer
- Production date
- 1530 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 468 millimetres
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Width: 370 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a group of three irregular fragments of tapestry cartoons relating to the History of St Paul, for comment see 1887,0613.64.
E. Cleland, ed., Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry, New York and New Haven, 2014, cat. 31; S. Alsteens, 'The Drawings of Pieter Coecke van Aeslt' Master Drawings LII:3 (2014) B3.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1973, BM, Netherlandish prints and drawings (no cat.)
2014/15 Oct-Jan, New York, Met Mus of Art, Pieter Coecke van Aelst
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1887,0613.65