The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Robert Lehman Collection
A Seated Saint Reading from a Book
Alesso Baldovinetti|Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni)
- Date
- late 15th century
- Medium
- Brush and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized); horizontal lines in black chalk (?); pricked for transfer; outlines reinforced in brown ink, perhaps in the 15th or early 16th century.
- Dimensions
- 10 1/4 x 6 3/8 in. (26.1 x 16.2 cm)
- Object type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Object number
- 1975.1.409
- Credit line
- Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Artist information
Italian, Florence 1425–1499 Florence|Italian, Florentine, ca. 1446–1497
Subjects and terms
- Books
- Reading
- Saints
The Met object ID 459470. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.