Title: The invention of the cross; three men lifting a cross from a trench; from 'Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat' after a drawing by Pinturicchio
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1729–64
Artist:  Nicolas Le Sueur 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1691–1764 Paris
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching and aquatint with tone woodblock
Dimensions: Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 1/16 in. (53.1 × 38.3 cm)
Plate: 16 1/8 × 12 3/8 in. (41 × 31.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY