The Virgin Adoring the Infant Jesus

Description

Bartolomeo Biscaino was a Genoese painter, drafts­man, and printmaker influenced by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Guido Reni. The artist made fewer than 40 prints before his early death from the plague.

The Virgin Adoring the Infant Jesus

Bartolomeo Biscaino

1655

Accession Number

30473

Medium

Etching on paper

Dimensions

24.5 × 18.3 cm (9 11/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

J. B. Fair Fund