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The Virgin with the infant Christ seated on a cushion and the young Saint John the Baptist at his feet, an oval composition
ca. 1600–1640
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet (Trimmed to oval): 6 1/4 × 5 9/16 in. (15.8 × 14.1 cm)
- Collection no.
- 26.70.4(160)
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Guido Reni. The Virgin with the infant Christ seated on a cushion and the young Saint John the Baptist at his feet, an oval composition. Guido Reni; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Virgin with the infant Christ seated on a cushion and the young Saint John the Baptist at his feet, an oval composition — Guido Reni. ca. 1600–1640.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed to oval): 6 1/4 × 5 9/16 in. (15.8 × 14.1 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.