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Description

Andrea del Sarto
The holy family with Saint John ('The Borgherini Holy Family')
oil on panel

Catalogue Note

A 16th century copy after Del Sarto's original composition, which was commissioned by the Florentine nobleman Giovanni Borgherini circa 1530, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see A. Naldini, Andrea del Sarto, Milan 1999, pp. 186-7, cat . no. 186, reproduced plate 185).