Peter Candid

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Peter de Witte, known in Italy as Pietro Candido and in Bavaria as Peter Candid[1] (c. 1548 – 1628) was a Flemish-born Mannerist painter, tapestry designer and draughtsman active in Italy and Bavaria.[2] He was an artist at the Medici court in Florence and at the Bavarian court of Duke William V and his successor Maximilian I in Munich.[3]

  1. ^ Name variations: Peter de Witte the Elder, Peter de Wit, Pieter de Witte, Peter Candido
  2. ^ Peter de Witte (I) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  3. ^ Peter Candid, The Annunciation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art