A Deacon Led to Martyrdom

1575–1640

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and blue wash, highlighted with chinese white, on blue paper
Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 5 9/16in. (22.6 x 14.1cm)
Collection no.: 80.3.470
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giovanni Mauro della Rovere. A Deacon Led to Martyrdom. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

A Deacon Led to Martyrdom — Giovanni Mauro della Rovere. 1575–1640.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and blue wash, highlighted with chinese white, on blue paper. Dimensions: 8 7/8 x 5 9/16in. (22.6 x 14.1cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880.

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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