Object Image

Saint James the Greater

These figures, along with five others in the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, originally formed part of an altarpiece that included Christ and the twelve apostles.

Credit: Gift of Mrs. Ernst Payer, 1991...

c. 1450-60
Alabaster, with traces of polychromy
16.0 x 5.0in
1991.416.3
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

Where you'll find this

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Permanent collection