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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    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)

      Subject(s)

      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
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • 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

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.66 A.XXII.6

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