St. James the Greater Preaching

ca. 1764

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: sheet: 10 7/8 x 5 11/16 in. (27.6 x 14.5 cm) plate: 9 1/4 x 3 15/16 in. (23.5 x 10 cm)
Collection no.: 2010.392
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Martin Johann Schmidt. St. James the Greater Preaching. Martin Johann Schmidt; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Adrian Eeles Gift, 2010. 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

St. James the Greater Preaching — Martin Johann Schmidt. ca. 1764.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: sheet: 10 7/8 x 5 11/16 in. (27.6 x 14.5 cm) plate: 9 1/4 x 3 15/16 in. (23.5 x 10 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Adrian Eeles Gift, 2010.

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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