St. Joseph with the Christ Child and St. John the Baptist

St. Joseph with the Christ Child and St. John the Baptist by Filippino Lippi

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 · 14571504

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...

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