Saint Eustace

Mediums: watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, paper.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The artist refers to the legend of Saint Eustace, a second-century A.D. Christian martyr. Eustace was a noble officer in the army of the Roman emperor Trajan. One day he encountered a stag. The stag bore a crucifix between his antlers and turned Eustace to Christianity.