CARPACCIO, Vittore
(b. 1472, Venezia, d. 1526, Capodistria)

The Virgin Reading

1505-10
Tempera on canvas, 78 x 51 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

This painting is probably a fragment of a much larger composition, perhaps a subject developed from the female figure sitting on the balustrade to the right in the Birth of the Virgin in the Scuola degli Albanesi (now in the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo).