AT-00020162
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The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (French, Paris 1714–1789 Paris)
- Date
- ca. 1748
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, on gray-green paper
- Dimensions
- 13 7/8 x 7 1/8 in. (35.2 x 18.1 cm) (arched top)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 1989
- Accession no.
- 1989.5
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
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