AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

Study for a Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist

c.1860-76

Carbon print | 26.3 x 17.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850824

A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1507-08) now in the Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.539E). The drawing is a preparatory study for Raphael's so-called Esterházy Madonna (1508) now in the Szepmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (inv. no.71; see RCIN 850819 for a photograph of it).

Showing the kneeling Virgin supporting the Christ Child with both hands, who sits on a rock and points at the Infant Baptist, who kneels down on the left; in a landscape.

Creator(s)

After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

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Blessed Virgin Mary
26.3 x 17.5 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
  Life of Christ
  Infancy of Christ
  Christ Child
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Bibliographic reference(s)

Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p. 174, no. 169

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. 242, no. 539E

Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 pp. 254-257, no. 34

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Ruland p.66 A.XXII.6

Study for a Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist

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