Unidentified Apostle (St. Matthias?)

This is a detail from a retable fragment with six apostles in the Metropolitan Museum. With his right hand this apostle holds a scroll, which is sometimes the attribute of St. Matthias. None of the other apostles in the fragment has a scroll. The object in his left hand could conceivably be a book, which is also at times an attribute of St. Matthias.

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Photographed at the Metropolitan by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.