Christ Instructs Peter to Feed My Sheep

Christ Instructs Peter to Feed My Sheep

SK-A-4068

Christus draagt Petrus op: 'Weid mijn schapen'. Christus gebaart naar een opengeslagen boek waarin de woorden staan 'Petre Amas Me Pasce Oves Meas' (Johannes 21: 15-23). Petrus heeft zich naar Christus gekeerd, op de achtergrond twee andere discipelen.

• inscription: ‘Petre Amas Me Pasce Oves Meas’
• signature and date: ‘Vignon In. Fecit 1624’

painter: Claude Vignon, France

1624

oil on canvas

• height 127 cm x width 108 cm x thickness 3.7 cm
• depth 6 cm

purchase 1961-12

Public domain

…; collection of the church 'St Willibrordus Buiten de Veste', Amsterdam, as H. Bloemaert, 1928;{Utrecht V, 1928, p. 83, no. 33.} from whom, fl. 17,000, to the museum, 1961

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