Sacred Art & Iconography

St. Ignatius of Loyola (Nicolas Bazin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 57.639.1)

Engraving, Nicolas Bazin, 1703, Metropolitan Museum of Art 57.639.1

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Divinity Atlas. "St. Ignatius of Loyola (Nicolas Bazin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 57.639.1)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sacred-art-iconography/ignatius-of-loyola-bazin-met-57-639-1.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). St. Ignatius of Loyola (Nicolas Bazin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 57.639.1). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sacred-art-iconography/ignatius-of-loyola-bazin-met-57-639-1

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  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {St. Ignatius of Loyola (Nicolas Bazin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 57.639.1)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sacred-art-iconography/ignatius-of-loyola-bazin-met-57-639-1},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

An engraved portrait of Ignatius of Loyola, made by the French printmaker Nicolas Bazin in 1703 after earlier portraits by Cornelius Vermeulen and Nicolas de Largillierre. It follows the standard convention of Ignatius as a black-cassocked founder holding a book, the same register in which the Society of Jesus he founded circulated his image. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 57.639.1, given by Charles K. Wilkinson in 1957.

Facts

Rights and Reproduction

Reproduction and Copyrightthe subject's own account

Ignatius was canonized in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, and the Society of Jesus he founded thereafter circulated a standardized authorized portrait type of him for devotional use across Catholic Europe, cassocked, holding an open book, gazing upward in inspired attention. This 1703 engraving, made more than eighty years after the canonization and at third remove from Largillierre's original painting by way of Vermeulen's intervening print, shows how long that authorized type stayed in circulation through successive reproductions. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Belongs to Tradition

Roman Catholicism

Source St. Ignatius of Loyola, accession 57.639.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Depicts

Ignatius of Loyola

The engraving's directly named subject per the museum's own title and its own Portrait tag, following the founder-with-book iconography the corroborating Wikipedia record independently describes for him.

Source St. Ignatius of Loyola, accession 57.639.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Additional Source Ignatius of Loyola (Wikipedia)

Sources

1. Ignatius of Loyola (Wikipedia)

WikipediaView the Source

St. Ignatius of Loyola, accession 57.639.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Metropolitan Museum of ArtView the Source

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