Pilate Washing His Hands

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Artist: Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese) (Italian, Taverna 1613–1699 Valletta)
Date: 1663
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 81 1/8 x 72 3/4 in. (206.1 x 184.8 cm)
Type: Painting
Classification: Paintings
Department: European Paintings
Credit line: Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Bequest of Helena W. Charlton, by exchange, Gwynne Andrews, Marquand, Rogers, Victor Wilbour Memorial, and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds, and funds given or bequeathed by friends of the Museum, 1978
Accession no.: 1978.402

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Saint John the Baptist Preaching
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)
ca. 1650 · Painting
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00016113
A Group of Saints and Angels (recto); Studies of a Male Figure in a Pendentive (verso)
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)
1613–99 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020551
Seated Bishop with Arms Extended and Three Attendant Figures (recto); Head of a Lion and Perspective Diagrams (verso)
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)
1613–99 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020552
Design for the Decoration of a Cupola with a Prophet, King David and Two Putti
Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)
Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00021576

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.