Wilton album, folio 42a: The Holy Family; saint Joseph, to the right, holding a book

Annibale Carracci Italian

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On folio 42 with three other prints: 27.78.1(152-154)
For more information on the Wilton album see entry for 27.78.1(1-428)
One of Annibale's most famous and most copied prints. The composition is influenced by Ludovico Carracci's earlier Holy Family under an Arch (B. XVII.26.4) as well as Andrea del Sarto's fresco of the Madonna del Sacco in Santissima Annunziata, Florence

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