Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre

The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury

ca. 1748

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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)

Collection no.

1989.5

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre. The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 1989. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.