Shown from the waist up, an elderly man with pale, peachy skin, wavy, silvery-gray hair, and a long beard stands facing our right, almost filling this vertical painting. He wears a butterscotch-gold robe and clutches two large skeleton keys the length of his forearm in his right hand while his other fist rests at his waist. One key is iron gray and the other is copper colored. The man’s balding, high forehead slopes down to thick black brows arching over deep-set, hazel eyes that gaze upward. He has a long nose, pale pink mouth, and hollows under his high cheekbones. He is brightly lit from…
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Saint Peter

painter Anonymous Artist

Studio of related artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577 - 1640)

c. 1616/1618

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 92 × 67.5 cm (36 1/4 × 26 9/16 in.) ; framed: 123.19 × 96.52 × 7.62 cm (48 1/2 × 38 × 3 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Timken Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the National Gallery of Art