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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    AFTER FRA BARTOLOMEO (1475-1517)

    The Head of a Child

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 21.7 x 18.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850772

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth (inv.no.708) where it is attributed to Bartolomeo della Porta. Ruland (1876) attributed the drawing to Raphael and considered it as a study from life for the head of the Christ Child in the so-called ‘Canigiani Holy Family’, a painting by Raphael now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (inv. no.WA 476; see RCIN 850756 for a photograph of it).

    • Creator(s)

      After Fra Bartolomeo (1475-1517) (draughtsman)

      After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    • 21.7 x 18.3 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
        • Medical sciences
          • Anatomy
            • Heads
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Life of Christ
              • Infancy of Christ
                • Christ Child
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