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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

The Virgin and Child

published 25 January 1850

Engraving | RCIN 850984

A print of the Virgin seated in a chair, holding the Christ Child on her knees while looking at the beholder; a detail from so-called ‘Madonna della Seggiola’, a circular painting by Raphael (c.1514) now in the Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence (inv. no.151). Lettered with the title and production details. With the publisher’s blind stamp (lower left; not in Lugt). For a photograph of the ‘Madonna della Seggiola’, see RCIN 850973.
  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)