This website presents our knowledge and research on this important aspect of the Royal Collection. As of April 2026 it will not be regularly updated and new research on this topic will sit within the main website.

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

AFTER RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

The head of a bearded man wearing a hat

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 15.0 x 10.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850641

A photograph of a black chalk drawing by Raphael (c.1501-02) now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille (inv. no.488). The drawing is a preparatory study for the head of St Jerome in the Virgin and Child with Saints Jerome and Francis by Raphael now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no.145). See RCIN 850640 for a photograph of the Berlin painting.
  • Creator(s)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    Subject(s)

    Saint Jerome (c. 347-420)
  • 15.0 x 10.7 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Brejon de Lavergnée 1997 : Brejon de Lavergnée, B, 1997. Catalogue des dessins Italiens. Collections du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Paris p.178, no. 512

    Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p. 139, no. 25

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.54 A.II.3