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Virgin Kneeling before the Christ Child (with the Infant St. John the Baptist)

Virgin Kneeling before the Christ Child (with the Infant St. John the Baptist)

(French, about 1598–1642)
(Italian (Florentine), 1486–1530)
(French, active 1636–1644)
about 1630-1640
Medium/TechniqueEtching, after a painting by Andrea del Sarto
DimensionsSheet: 26.1 x 17.8 cm (10 1/4 x 7 in.)(trimmed within the platemark)
Credit LineGift of Sue Welsh Reed
Accession number2016.844
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsLeft margin: stamp of Spencer collection
ProvenanceJohn Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer (b. 1734 – d. 1783), Althorp, England (Lugt 2341a). About 1970s or 1980s, acquired by Sue Welsh Reed, Cambridge, MA [see note]; 2016, year-end gift of Sue Welsh Reed to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 18, 2017)

NOTE: First lent to the MFA in 1996 (loan no. L-T 91.3.1996).