The Virgin kneeling in prayer before the infant Christ who is lying on a wooden box, Saint Joseph at left, a mule at right, in an oval frame, after Reni
Anonymous|Guido Reni|Jean François Cars
ca. 1680–1738
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 12 3/16 × 15 1/16 in. (30.9 × 38.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.4567
Tags
ChristVirgin MarySaint Joseph
About the Artist
Anonymous|Guido Reni|Jean François Cars
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...