The Holy Family
Artist: Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642)
Date: about 1610-1620
Dimensions:
8 7/8 × 6 1/8 in. (22.5 × 15.6 cm)
Medium: etching
Place of Origin: Italy
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Winthrop H. Perry Collection
Object number: 1921.21
Label Text:While two child angels float above, sprinkling blossoms over the young Jesus, Mary sits, perhaps wearied by the child pulling at her clothing. Joseph appears to be resigned, seated behind a table, and poised over a book with head in hand—the classic pose of contemplative melancholy, symbolic of Joseph’s spiritual struggle with his wife’s miraculous pregnancy
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