Drawing Detail
Martyrdom of St PieterArtist: Caspar de Crayer
Medium: Drawings, Oil on paper, 34.5x28 cm
Date: Mid-17th century
Genre: Religious, Christianity
Source: Collection of Count Cobenzl, Brussels, 1768
Gaspar de Crayer (18 November 1582 - 27 January 1669), sometimes called Gaspard or Caspar de Crayer was a Flemish painter.
Crayer was one of the most productive yet one of the most conscientious artists of the later Flemish school, second to Rubens in vigour and below Van Dyck in refinement, but nearly equalling both in most of the essentials of painting. He was well known and always well treated by Archduke Albert of Austria and Archduchess Isabella, governors of the Netherlands.