A study for a Virgin and Child

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.267), reputed to be a copy after a lost drawing by Raphael. Ruland (1876) attributed the drawing to Raphael and connected it with his so-called ‘Madonna del Cardellino’, a painting (c.1506 now in the Uffizi, Florence (inv.1890, no.1447). A photograph of the painting can be found at RCIN 850698.

Showing the seated figure of the Virgin holding a book in her right hand and supporting the Child who stands between her knees and raises His right arm towards the book.