Plate 2: Saint Mark, his head turned in profile to the left, with an open book in his right hand and a lion at his feet, from 'The four evangelists'

1541

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving; forth of four states
Dimensions: Sheet: 1 5/8 x 1 3/16 in. (4.2 x 3 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.136.774.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Sebald Beham. Plate 2: Saint Mark, his head turned in profile to the left, with an open book in his right hand and a lion at his feet, from 'The four evangelists'. Sebald Beham; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. 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

Plate 2: Saint Mark, his head turned in profile to the left, with an open book in his right hand and a lion at his feet, from 'The four evangelists' — Sebald Beham. 1541.

Medium: Engraving; forth of four states. Dimensions: Sheet: 1 5/8 x 1 3/16 in. (4.2 x 3 cm).

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

Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.

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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