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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

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

Study for the Infant Baptist

c.1853-76

Salted paper print | 12.0 x 6.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850827

A photograph of a drawing corresponding to the figure of the Infant Baptist in Raphael’s so-called ‘Esterházy Madonna’ (1507-08), a painting now in the Szepmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (inv. no.71; see RCIN 850819 for a photograph of it). According to Ruland (1876), the drawing (which he believed to be by Raphael) was then in the Museum at Copenhagen.
  • Creator(s)

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

  • 12.0 x 6.2 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

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