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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

Studies for a Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist

c.1860-76

Carbon print | 16.1 x 19.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850717

A photograph of a sheet now in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.1134E), featuring two compositional studies for a group of the Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist. Ruland (1876) suggested that the studies could be copies after Raphael’s sketches drawn on the verso of a sheet now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.IV,207 r). For a photograph of the Albertina sheet, see RCIN 850711.
  • Creator(s)

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

  • 16.1 x 19.5 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Devotional Images of Christ
            • Virgin & Child
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp. 214-219, no. 26 (Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 )