Medium
Etching, only state
Dimensions
8 x 6 3/16 in. (20.3 x 15.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.18-135
Tags
ChristVirgin MaryHoly FamilySaint John the BaptistSaint Joseph
About the Artist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)|Hendrik van der Borcht II|Wenceslaus Hollar · 1501–1547
Perino del Vaga, born Piero Bonaccorsi in 1501 near Florence, emerged as one of the most elegant painters of the Mannerist era. Orphaned early—his mother died when he was two months old and his father, a gambler turned soldier, left him in the care of a stepmother—Perino received an unconventional start, apprenticed first to a druggist and then to the mediocre Andrea de' Ceri. At age eleven, he en...