Saint Luke in a Niche
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1580 – 1605
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: St. Luke stands in a niche, holding a pen to an open book. A bull crouches behind his feet. The left lower part of the saint's mantle shows evidence of an earlier design, later corrected.
label: Description
content: Verso: A bull runs towards the left with a rider attempting to mount his back. Various inscriptions.
place: label: made in
content: Italy
label: made in
content: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-126
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: pen and brown ink, brush and brown and black washes over black chalk, with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on laid paper Verso: pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 15.2 × 10.6 cm (6 × 4 3/16 in.)