Studies for an Education of the Virgin: Saint Anne Teaching the Virgin to Read
Sebastiano Ricci
1659–1734
Medium
Pen and brown ink over black chalk
Dimensions
9 7/16 x 6 1/2in. (23.9 x 16.5cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Florence and Carl Selden Foundation Inc. Gift, 1967
Accession Number
67.15
Tags
ReadingSaint AnneVirgin Mary
About the Artist
Sebastiano Ricci · 1659–1734
Sebastiano Ricci (1659–1734) was born in Belluno, in the Venetian Republic, and received his early training in Venice, where he was apprenticed at age twelve to the Milanese painter Federico Cervelli. Some accounts identify Sebastiano Mazzoni as his first master. A youthful scandal involving an unintended pregnancy and a charge of attempted poisoning led to imprisonment in 1678, from which he was ...