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Christ and other religious subjects

Images of Christ and Other Religious Subjects / Other religious compositions

CASTEL : PARIS

The Sleep of the Infant Jesus

published 1808

Etching with engraving | 42.3 x 34.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850589

An etching of the sleeping Christ Child leaning on a cushion, partly clothed, surrounded by three bust-length angels; after a painting formerly ascribed to Raphael, as lettered on the print. According to Ruland (1876), the painting (which he attributed to Guido Reni) was then in the Palazzo Brignoli, Genoa.

  • Creator(s)

    Castel : Paris (etcher)

    After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    After Auguste Gaspard Louis Boucher Desnoyers (1779-1857) (designer)

    Noël Frères [Paris] (publisher)

    After a work previously attributed to Guido Reni (Bologna 1575-Bologna 1642) (artist)

  • 42.3 x 34.2 cm (sheet of paper)

    33.0 x 27.6 cm (image)

  • LE SOMMEIL DE JÉSUS

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Life of Christ
            • Infancy of Christ
              • Christ Child
    • Children
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