The Martyrdom of Saint Paul

A pen and brown wash drawing shows a bare-chested man with his arms tied above his head, standing before a crowd of armored soldiers holding a banner, while a robed figure kneels in the foreground. Stone columns and a distant arch frame the scene, with white highlights modeling the figures.

Artist

Taddeo Zuccaro

Date

ca. 1557–58

Medium

Pen and brown and gray ink, brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white, on buff paper.

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2816 × 3620 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975