Face of Christ on St. Veronica's Cloth

1649

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving; second state of two
Dimensions: plate: 16 15/16 x 12 3/8 in. (43 x 31.5 cm) sheet: 18 1/8 x 13 11/16 in. (46 x 34.8 cm)
Collection no.: 69.581.5
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Claude Mellan. Face of Christ on St. Veronica's Cloth. Claude Mellan; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969. 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

Face of Christ on St. Veronica's Cloth — Claude Mellan. 1649.

Medium: Engraving; second state of two. Dimensions: plate: 16 15/16 x 12 3/8 in. (43 x 31.5 cm) sheet: 18 1/8 x 13 11/16 in. (46 x 34.8 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969.

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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