The Denial of Saint Peter, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

Story of the denial of PeterMatthew 26:58

2 hands · 1610–1624

And Peter followed him afar off, even to the court of the high priest. And going…Matthew 26:58

  1. The Denial of Saint Peter, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)1610Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)This record
  2. The Denial of Peter, Peter Wtewael (Dutch, 1596–1660)c. 1624–28Peter Wtewael (Dutch, 1596–1660)

What it depicts

Matthew 26:58Opened by a notation lookup, not by an editor. Iconclass 73D33 glosses this subject as “story of the denial of Peter (Matthew 26:58, 26:69-75; Mark 14:54, 14:66-72; Luke 22:55-62; John 18:15-18, 18:25-27)”, and this library reads the Douay-Rheims, where the passage stands at Matthew 26:58. Iconclass states 4 references for this subject; the first one this corpus holds is used.

58And Peter followed him afar off, even to the court of the high priest. And going in, he sat with the servants, that he might see the end.

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73D41From Pilate's palace to Golgotha: the procession to Calvary

Of

The subjects are the library’s own joins, each marked with who made it. The other rows are claims by the holder and by Wikidata, read 2026-09-04, and join nothing until an editor confirms them.

Subject
Story of the denial of PeterMatthew 26:58joined by Abe Garcia
Iconclass
73D331
Holder's headings
Soldiers, Men, Women, Saint Peter
Wikidata depicts
woman, man, Saint Peter, Denial of Peter, soldier

Means

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Rights

Credit
Gift of Herman and Lila Shickman, and Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997
Licence
CC0-1.0
Evidence
metmuseum.org collection api v1: isPublicDomain=true on object 437986 (read 2026-08-27)
Record
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437986
The Denial of Saint Peter, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
The Denial of Saint Peter — Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)1610

How this join was made

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY gives this object the Iconclass notation73D331, and the library's map reads that notation as Matthew 26:58. An editor has checked the picture against the passage and confirmed it.

Caravaggio's Denial of Saint Peter: the maid pointing, the soldier, and Peter's hands. The whole episode is three faces in the dark.

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  • Story of the denial of PeterCaravaggio's Denial of Saint Peter: the maid pointing, the soldier, and Peter's hands. The whole episode is three faces in the dark.

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