The Virgin kneeling in prayer before the infant Christ who is lying on a wooden box, Saint Joseph at left, a mule at right, in an oval frame, after Reni
Summary
After a painting by Reni. Verso is not visible as print is laid to another sheet of paper.
Anonymous
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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Date
1500 - 1600
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)