National Gallery of Art (US)

The Virgin Reading

c. 1505

Type: Painting
Medium: oil on panel transferred to canvas
Dimensions: overall: 78 × 51 cm (30 11/16 × 20 1/16 in.) framed: 119.7 × 86.36 × 16.51 cm (47 1/8 × 34 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit: Samuel H. Kress Collection

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