Object Image

The Virgin in profile facing right reading to the infant Christ

Attributed to Marco Dente

Credit: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949

c. 1515-27
Engraving
18.9 x 13.1cm
49.97.18
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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