The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Medium
Etching
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925
Accession Number
25.2.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Madonna and ChildSaint Anne
About the Artist
Georges de La Tour|Anonymous, Netherlandish, 17th century · 1593–1652
Georges de La Tour (1593–1652) was a French Baroque painter born in Vic-sur-Seille in the Duchy of Lorraine. Baptism records confirm he was the son of baker Jean de La Tour and Sybille Molian, one of seven children. In 1617 he married Diane Le Nerf, from a minor noble family, and by 1620 he had established his studio in her hometown of Lunéville, where he remained for most of his career. He achiev...