Saint Benedict on a Bed of Thorns

1666–1724

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on brownish paper
Dimensions: 19-9/16 x 14-5/16 in. (49.7 x 36.3 cm)
Collection no.: 87.12.79
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Benedetto Luti. Saint Benedict on a Bed of Thorns. Benedetto Luti; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Saint Benedict on a Bed of Thorns — Benedetto Luti. 1666–1724.

Medium: Black chalk, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on brownish paper. Dimensions: 19-9/16 x 14-5/16 in. (49.7 x 36.3 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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