The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple

1728–81

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and pale brown wash, over black chalk
Dimensions: 11 1/8 x 8in. (28.2 x 20.3cm)
Collection no.: 80.3.501
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Ubaldo Gandolfi. The Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple. Ubaldo Gandolfi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880. 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 Presentation of the Virgin Mary in the Temple — Ubaldo Gandolfi. 1728–81.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and pale brown wash, over black chalk. Dimensions: 11 1/8 x 8in. (28.2 x 20.3cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880.

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.

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