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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    FERDINAND JEAN DE LA FERTÉ JOUBERT (1810-84)

    The Virgin and Child

    published 1835

    Etching | 29.0 x 23.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850818

    An outline-etching after a painting attributed on plate to Fra Bartolommeo, when in the Coesvelt Gallery, London. The painting is one of a number of copies of the so-called Colonna Madonna, a picture by Raphael (1507-08) now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no.248; a photograph of which is at RCIN 850815). Included in Collection of Pictures by W. G. Coesvelt, Esq of London, London 1836, plate 28.

    Showing the Virgin holding a book in her left hand and supporting the Christ Child with her right arm, who sits on her lap and grasps her bodice while looking at the viewer; in a landscape.

    • Creator(s)

      Ferdinand Jean de la Ferté Joubert (1810-84) (etcher)

      After a work copying Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

      Ferdinand Jean de la Ferté Joubert (1810-84) (designer)

      Carpenter, James, & Son : Old Bond Street (publisher)

      Subject(s)

      Blessed Virgin Mary

    • 29.0 x 23.4 cm (sheet of paper)

      13.7 cm (diameter, circular format) (image)

      27.5 x 22.0 cm (platemark)

    • 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
            • Life of Christ
              • Infancy of Christ
                • Christ Child
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 pp. 264-266, no. 36

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.66 A.XXI.5

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