The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
ca. 1524–26
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
34 3/4 x 25 5/8 in. (88.3 x 65.1 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson, Denise and Andrew Saul, and Friends of European Paintings Gifts, Gwynne Andrews Fund, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill, Jon and Barbara Landau, Charles and Jessie Price, Hester Diamond, and Fern and George Wachter Gifts, 2011
Accession Number
2011.26
Tags
About the Artist
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · 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...