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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

JOHANN ANTON ALBAN RAMBOUX (1790-1866)

Holy Family with Saints ['The Holy Family with the Pomegranate']

c.1810-1856

Lithograph | 31.5 x 22.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851230

A lithograph reproducing the so-called Holy Family with a Pomegranate, a painting by Domenico Alfani (1511) now in the Galleria Nazionale, Perugia. Numbered on plate: '110'. Plate no.110 from a-yet-unidentified set. The painting is based on a drawing which Raphael executed and presented to Domenico Alfani, currently housed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.458). Photographs of the painting can be found at RCINs 851228, 851229.

The photograph shows the full-length seated Virgin, supporting the naked Christ Child who reaches for a pomegranate presented to Him by St Joseph. St Joachim is behind the Holy Family at right; at left St Anne with the Infant Baptist; against a landscape background, with cherubs holding the dedication in the upper portion and surmounted by the Dove of the Holy Spirit.
  • Creator(s)

    Johann Anton Alban Ramboux (1790-1866) (lithographer)

    After Domenico Alfani (c. 1480-after 1553) (artist)

    Subject(s)

    Saint Joseph
    Joachim
    Saint Anne
    Blessed Virgin Mary
  • 31.5 x 22.6 cm (sheet of paper)

  • TAVOLA DI DOMENICO DI PARIS ALFANI SCOLARE DI PIETRO, DOPPO UN DISEGNO DI RAFAEL, A' CARM. DI PERUGIA

  • 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
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Biological sciences
        • Zoology
          • Animals
            • Mythical creatures
              • Cherubs
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • prints
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Raphael et l'art francais 1983-84 : Hommage a Raphael. Raphael et l'art francais (Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 15 novembre 1983-13 fevrier 1984) pp.223-4, under no.54, fig.75

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.93 C.XXIX.4