Virgin and Child with Saint Jerome at left by Correggio (Antonio Allegri)|Henri-Charles Müller|Francesco Bartolozzi

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Image: 14 5/16 × 9 15/16 in. (36.4 × 25.3 cm) Sheet: 16 1/2 × 11 7/8 in. (41.9 × 30.1 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933

Accession Number

33.104.2567

Art Historical Context

This enchanting engraving, titled *Virgin and Child with Saint at Left*, reproduces a composition by the Italian High Renaissance master Correggio (Antonio Alleg da Correggio, c. 1489–1534). Created in 1822 by engravers Henri-Charles Müller Francesco Bartolozzi, captures Correggio's grace and tenderness in depicting the Madonna cradling the Christ Child, with Saint Jerome—patron of scholars and translator of the Bible—positioned thoughtfully at left. Such devotional scenes were central to Renaissance religious art, blending humanism with spirituality in Correggio's soft, luminous style that fo...

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