A polychrome and gilded wood sculpture titled "Saint Martin of Tours," German work of the late 15th to early 16th century. Martin, a fourth century Roman soldier who became bishop of Tours, is remembered above all for dividing his cloak in two to share it with a freezing beggar at the gates of Amiens, a night he later said Christ visited him in a dream wearing that same half cloak. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Medieval Art department, under accession 50.233.2.
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The Met's own title for this sculpture names the subject outright, "Saint Martin of Tours," a direct identification rather than a bare thematic tag.
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