Virgin kneeling before Christ
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 15/16 x 7 1/8 in. (22.7 x 18.1cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Colonel James Barnes, 1920
Accession Number
20.70
Tags
ChristVirgin Mary
About the Artist
Pierre Brebiette|Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · 1598–1642
Pierre Brébiette (c. 1598–c. 1642) was a French painter and etcher whose elegant, sensuous treatment of classical mythology and allegory earned him a significant reputation in early seventeenth-century Paris. Born in Mantes-sur-Seine, Brébiette traveled to Italy as a young man and lived and worked in Rome from around 1617 to approximately 1625, absorbing the influences of ancient sculpture, Renais...