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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    AFTER A WORK ATTRIBUTED TO RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    Studies for the Virgin and Child

    c.1860-76

    Carbon print | 32.0 x 20.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851040

    A photograph of a drawing attributed to Raphael (c.1518) now in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.535E). The drawing is a preparatory study for the figures of the Virgin and Child in the so-called ‘Holy Family of Francis I’, a painting attributed to Raphael and his workshop (1518) currently in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.604). A photograph of the ‘Holy Family of Francis I’ can be found at RCIN 851028.

    Showing a full-length seated woman, turned to the left, holding a child under his armpits at lower centre; another study of the bust and left arm of the woman at top right.

    • Creator(s)

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

    • 32.0 x 20.4 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Life of Christ
              • Infancy of Christ
                • Christ Child
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p.152, no.91 (Oberhuber/Gnann 1999 : Roma e lo stile classico di Raffaello, 1515-1527 / a cura di Konrad Oberhuber ; catalogo di Achim Gnann, 1999)

      no. 535E (Inventario Uffizi. Disegni Esposti I 1986 : Disegni esposti ; v. 1, 1986 / a cura di Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Florence (Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi))

      p. 233, no 394 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

      pp. 170-177, no. 62 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )

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