The Holy Family with Angels
Sebastiano Ricci
ca. 1700
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
50 x 45 1/2 in. (127 x 115.6 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Piero Corsini, 1986
Accession Number
1986.347
Tags
AngelsChristVirgin MaryReadingHoly FamilySaint Joseph
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 ...