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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

AFTER ROCCHI

Holy Family with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 26.2 x 20.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850917

A photograph of a cartoon reproducing the composition of the so-called Madonna del Divino Amore (c.1516), a painting currently attributed to Raphael’s workshop and housed in the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples (inv. no.146).

Showing the seated Virgin holding the blessing Christ Child on her legs, with St Elizabeth at her side and the Young St John the Baptist kneeling down on the left; St Joseph stands in the background to the left.
  • Creator(s)

    After Rocchi (artist)

    After a work by the workshop of Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    Subject(s)

    Saint Elizabeth
    Saint Joseph
    Blessed Virgin Mary
  • 26.2 x 20.3 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for 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
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 pp. 247-251, no. A8

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.72 A.XXX.6