The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist

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Artist: Polidoro da Caravaggio (Italian, Caravaggio ca. 1499–ca. 1543 Messina)
Date: 1520–25
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and grayish brown wash over black chalk with white heightening, traces of squaring in pen and brown ink (especially evident at lower right and lower left).
Dimensions: sheet: 6 15/16 x 9 in. (17.7 x 22.8 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, 2008
Accession no.: 2009.31.1

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Studies for an Altarpiece with the Virgin Enthroned, Attended by Four Saints (recto); Various Figure Studies, Some Possibly for a Deposition of Christ (verso)
Polidoro da Caravaggio
1530–35 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020538
Design for a Crucifix with the Virgin Mary, Saint Mary Magdalen, and Saint John
Polidoro da Caravaggio
n.d. · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022092

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