Artist
Benjamin West (American, active England, 1738–1820)American, active England, 1738–1820
CultureAmerican
Titles
- St. Peter's First Sermon in the City of Jerusalem II
Datec. 1785
MediumOil on paper mounted to canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 23 1/4 × 17 15/16 in. (59 × 45.5 cm)
Frame (inner): 22 5/16 × 17 1/8 in. (56.7 × 43.5 cm)
Frame (outer): 32 5/16 × 27 3/16 × 4 1/8 in. (82 × 69 × 10.5 cm)
Frame (inner): 22 5/16 × 17 1/8 in. (56.7 × 43.5 cm)
Frame (outer): 32 5/16 × 27 3/16 × 4 1/8 in. (82 × 69 × 10.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll, KM and Prof. Roberta L. Carroll, MD
Object number2020.216
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
106 Cameron Gallery
On view
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Department
American ArtObject Type
Exhibition HistoryLoan, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, exhibited October 2005 – April 2015 (TR.464.2005)
Catalogue raisonnéHelmut Von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986)
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Benjamin West
1797
Oil on five sheets of paper mounted on canvas, itself mounted on wood
BF.1985.12
Benjamin West
1801
Lithograph on wove paper mounted on the original wove support sheet with gray-brown aquatint
B.2014.8
Benjamin West
c. 1779
Black chalk, pen and brown ink and watercolor, heightened with touches of white, grey and blue bodycolor and brown wash, on oatmeal paper
2007.1461.A,.B
