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The Holy Family with the Virgin reading a book
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The Holy Family with the Virgin reading a book

Medium

Etching; second state of two

Dimensions

Sheet (Trimmed): 8 3/8 × 5 3/4 in. (21.3 × 14.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Matteo Cadorin

1643 |1613 –1653 |1678 Italian|Italian

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