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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    GIOVITA GARAVAGLIA (1790-1835)

    Holy Family with the Lamb

    1817

    Engraving with etching | 53.3 x 40.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850780

    An engraving after a painting now in the Musei Civici, Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia (inv. no.306). Lettered with production details. The painting - which Ruland (1876) catalogued as being then in the possession of Marchese Luigi Malaspina di Sannazaro, Pavia - is a copy of Raphael’s ‘Holy Family with the Lamb’ (1507; see RCIN 850778 for a photograph of this painting).

    Showing the Christ Child astride the lamb, supported by the Virgin Mary, with St Joseph standing on the right; in a landscape.

    • Creator(s)

      Giovita Garavaglia (1790-1835) (engraver)

      After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

      Bardi, Luigi : Florence (publisher)

      Marchese Luigi Malaspina di Sannazzaro (1754-1835) (dedicatee)

      Giovita Garavaglia (1790-1835) (dedicator)

    • 53.3 x 40.8 cm (sheet of paper)

      37.7 x 30.1 cm (image)

      47.0 x 34.9 cm (platemark)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Devotional Images of Christ
              • Virgin & Child
                • Virgin & Child with Saints
                  • Virgin & Child with Saints-Holy Family
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Agriculture and related techniques
          • Animal husbandry
            • Sheep
              • Lambs
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