# The Virgin Reading

- By: Vittore Carpaccio (Venetian, c. 1465 - 1525/1526)
- Date: c. 1505
- Medium: oil on panel transferred to canvas
- Classification: Painting
- 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.)
- Culture: Venetian
- Credit line: Samuel H. Kress Collection
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.498.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/49a3ba61-e989-48cd-acb6-b9319de27557/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)