Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)
Study of the Virgin and Child
c.1853-76Albumen print | 19.9 x 18.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850898
A photograph of the right half of a drawing by Raphael (c.1505) now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.3856 v). For a photograph of the left half of the sheet see RCIN 851250.
The sketch reproduced in this photograph is copied from Michelangelo’s ‘Taddei Tondo’, a circular relief sculpture now housed in the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Ruland (1876) did not describe this drawing as a copy after Michelangelo and associated it with Raphael’s ‘Bridgewater Madonna’ (c.1507) currently on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (inv. no.NGL 065.46) from the Duke of Sutherland Collection.
The sketch reproduced in this photograph is copied from Michelangelo’s ‘Taddei Tondo’, a circular relief sculpture now housed in the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Ruland (1876) did not describe this drawing as a copy after Michelangelo and associated it with Raphael’s ‘Bridgewater Madonna’ (c.1507) currently on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (inv. no.NGL 065.46) from the Duke of Sutherland Collection.
Creator(s)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
19.9 x 18.5 cm (sheet of paper)
- Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)
Subject(s)
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Virgin & Child
- Life of Christ
- Infancy of Christ
- Christ Child
- Infancy of Christ
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Religion & Theology
Bibliographic reference(s)
pp.48-50, no. 37 (Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte))
p. 155, no. 93v (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)
