The Liberation of Saint Peter from Prison (or the Deliverance of Saint Peter) is a small predella panel in tempera on wood from a large polyptych painted in 1370–1371 by Jacopo di Cione for the (no longer extant) church of San Pier Maggiore in Florence.
This panel forms part of the narrative of the life of Saint Peter on the predella, which included at least five other scenes: The upper portions of the altarpiece are now in the National Gallery, London.
[3] The scene depicts the liberation of Peter, an episode from Acts 12:3–19 in which Peter was put into prison in Jerusalem by King Herod, but the night before his trial an angel awoke him while he lay between two guards and "a light shone in the cell".
Under the angel's escort, Peter's chains fell off and the city gates opened.
The scene shows the angel awakening Saint Peter inside the cell, and on the right, leading him by the hand past sleeping guards.