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The Holy Family seated together in front of a collonade, Saint Joseph reading and the young Christ grasping the Virgin's drapery
ca. 1590–1610
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- Sheet (Trimmed): 9 1/16 × 5 15/16 in. (23 × 15.1 cm)
- Collection no.
- 59.500.858
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Guido Reni. The Holy Family seated together in front of a collonade, Saint Joseph reading and the young Christ grasping the Virgin's drapery. Guido Reni; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959. 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 Holy Family seated together in front of a collonade, Saint Joseph reading and the young Christ grasping the Virgin's drapery — Guido Reni. ca. 1590–1610.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 9 1/16 × 5 15/16 in. (23 × 15.1 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959.
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.