# The Holy Family with the Virgin reading a book

- By: Giulio Carpioni (Italian, Venice 1613–1678 Venice)
- By: Matteo Cadorin
- Date: 1640–60
- Medium: Etching; second state of two
- Classification: Prints
- Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 8 3/8 × 5 3/4 in. (21.3 × 14.6 cm)
- Culture: Italian
- Credit line: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950
- Museum: [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/812445)
- Rights: [Public domain (Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/met/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP883129.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)