Charles-André van Loo

St. Gregory Reluctant to Accept His Election as Bishop of Rome

18th century

Dating

Within this century

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white, over traces of graphite.

Dimensions

7 5/8 x 5 1/2 in. (19.4 x 13.9 cm)

Collection no.

1977.416d

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Charles-André van Loo. St. Gregory Reluctant to Accept His Election as Bishop of Rome. Charles-André van Loo; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1977. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.