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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    LUIGI BRIDI (ACTIVE 1820S)

    The Holy Family with the Infant Baptist

    published 1828

    Etching | 21.3 x 14.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851087

    A outline-etching after a painting then in the possession of Sig. Carlo Sanquirico, Milan. The painting is a copy of the so-called Madonna de Passeggio, a picture generally attributed to the workshop of Raphael possibly after a design by the master (c.1518-20), currently on loan to National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (inv. no. NGL 064.46) from the Duke of Sutherland Collection. Lettered with production details. Published in F. Longhena, Istoria della vita e delle opere di Raffaello Sanzio, 1829.

    Showing the full-length Virgin holding the Christ Child with her left hand and putting her right on the head of the Infant John the Baptist, who approaches them on the left holding a cross staff, with St Joseph in the left middle-ground; in a landscape.

    • Creator(s)

      Luigi Bridi (active 1820s) (etcher)

      After a work copying The Workshop of Raphael (artist)

      Carlo Picozzi (active 1797-1883) (designer)

      Francesco Sonzogno di Gio. Batta : Milan (publisher)

      Subject(s)

      Saint Joseph
      Blessed Virgin Mary

    • 21.3 x 14.3 cm (sheet of paper)

      18.9 x 13.5 cm (image)

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Devotional Images of Christ
              • Virgin & Child
                • Virgin & Child with Saints
                  • Virgin & Child with Saints-Holy Family
            • Life of Christ
              • Infancy of Christ
                • Christ Child
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Raphael. The Pursuit of Perfection 1994 : Raphael. The Pursuit of Perfection, National Galleries of Scotland, 1994 p.91, no.42 (entry by A. Weston-Lewis)

      Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 pp. 227-230, no. A2

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.82 A.XLIII.3

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