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The Virgin seated on a cloud

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The Virgin seated on a cloud

Federico Barocci

1580–84

Medium

Etching with some engraving

Tags

Madonna and Child

Dimensions

sheet: 6 x 4 7/16 in. (15.2 x 11.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Federico Barocci

1528–1612 • Duchy of Urbino

Italian miniaturist and painter who specialized in alterpieces. He worked in the Vatican for Pope Pius IV, where an attempt was made to murder him by poison. In injured health as a result, he returned to Urbino and died there. Comment on works: Religious

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