The Holy Family with Attendant Angels

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Artist: Pietro Testa (Italian, Lucca 1612–1650 Rome)
Date: 1612–50
Medium: Pen and brown ink (recto); fragmentary copy in pen and brown ink of figures in Mantegna's engraving, the Senators (verso) (Bartsch, 8, pp. 234-235, no. 11)
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 6 1/16in. (13.7 x 15.4cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff Gift, 1980
Accession no.: 1980.309

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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.