St. Joseph with the Christ Child and St. John the Baptist
Filippino Lippi
ca. 1500
Medium
Pen and brown ink, heightened with white on prepared paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 × 4 5/8 in. (12.7 × 11.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey Gift, 2018
Accession Number
2018.161
About the Artist
Filippino Lippi · 1457–1504
Filippino Lippi was born around 1457 in Prato, the illegitimate son of the celebrated Florentine painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti, who later received a papal dispensation to marry. The family moved to Spoleto, where young Filippino assisted in his father's workshop on the fresco cycle *Life of the Virgin* in the cathedral. Following Fra Filippo's death in 1469, when Filippino wa...