Die Jungfrau und der heilige Josef bringen dem Jesusknaben das Lesen bei

The Holy Family with the Virgin teaching the Child to Read

The intimacy of this scene is enhanced by the golden light and the natural gestures of the figures. It is one of a group of small devotional paintings of the Holy Family which Schedoni made in the last years of his life. According to an inscription on the reverse, this one belonged to the artist's wife.