Coronation of the Virgin

"Coronation of the Virgin" is an etching and aquatint by Andrea Scacciati, dated between 1750 and 1770. The sheet measures 13 3/4 × 18 3/16 inches (34.9 × 46.2 cm) and is classified as a print within the Drawings and Prints department. The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired it in 1953 through the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund.

The artist, Andrea Scacciati, is identified as an Italian painter born in 1642 and deceased in 1710. No nationality is specified in the artist authority record, and there is no information regarding his specific connection to printmaking or the medium of etching and aquatint. The provided catalogue data does not include any provenance, exhibition history, or literature for this specific artwork.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds several comparable works attributed to Andrea Scacciati, primarily dated between 1750 and 1775. These include subjects like "A goddess in a chariot," "Venus and Adonis (?), nude in a landscape," "The Death of Saint Anne," "Latona and her sleeping twins," and "The Virgin and child with two angels." Several works are dated around 1766, such as "The Death of Saint Anne" and "Madonna and child appearing before a kneeling saint, after Bernardino Poccetti."