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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    Studies of a Virgin and Child

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | RCIN 850902

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.266). The drawing is a copy of a sheet by Raphael currently housed in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3856 v). For a photograph and further details about the Louvre drawing, see RCIN 850899.
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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