Studies for an Education of the Virgin: Saint Anne Teaching the Virgin to Read
Purchase, The Florence and Carl Selden Foundation Inc. Gift, 1967
Catalogue
- Year
- 1659
- Dimensions
- 9 7/16 x 6 1/2in. (23.9 x 16.5cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Sebastiano Ricci
Artist
Painting
Sebastiano Ricci was an Italian Baroque painter of the late Baroque period in Venetian painting. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting.
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- Sebastiano Ricci
- Year
- 1659
- Dimensions
- 9 7/16 x 6 1/2in. (23.9 x 16.5cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1659-325443
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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