Virgin and Child Attended by Angels
Filippino Lippi
1457/58–1504
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 7/8 x 8 3/4 in. (17.5 x 22.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1968
Accession Number
68.204
Tags
Madonna and ChildAngels
About the Artist
Filippino Lippi · 1457–1504
Filippino Lippi was born around 1457 in Prato, the illegitimate son of the celebrated Florentine painter Fra Filippo Lippi and the nun Lucrezia Buti, who later received a papal dispensation to marry. The family moved to Spoleto, where young Filippino assisted in his father's workshop on the fresco cycle *Life of the Virgin* in the cathedral. Following Fra Filippo's death in 1469, when Filippino wa...