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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

P. LANDRY : À S. FRANCOIS DE SALES

Holy Family among ruins

c.1620-1720

Engraving with etching | 41.2 x 48.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851160

A print reproducing a composition attributed on plate to Raphael. Lettered within image with production details.

The composition closely resembles an engraving by Giacinto Parbeni, said to be based on a painting formerly housed in the Palazzo Rospigliosi, Rome. An impression of Parbeni's engraving can be found at RCIN 851159.

Showing the full-length Virgin kneeling down before the Christ Child with her hands clasped in adoration, and with St Joseph genuflecting behind the Child while looking at the beholder on the right; in a landscape with ruins.
  • Creator(s)

    P. Landry : à S. Francois de Sales (publisher)

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

  • 41.2 x 48.8 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Devotional Images of Christ
            • Virgin & Child
              • Virgin & Child with Saints
                • Virgin & Child with Saints-Holy Family
          • Life of Christ
            • Infancy of Christ
              • Christ Child