Virgin and Child with Saint Jerome at left
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...