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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

    The Virgin and Child

    c.1860-76

    Carbon print, on coloured paper | 20.7 x 16.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851204

    A photograph of a drawing currently in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.498E). Formerly attributed to Raphael, the drawing is now thought to be a copy after a lost original study by Raphael.

    Other copies of the same composition with the addition of the Infant Baptist are in the British Museum, London (inv. nos.Ff.I-38 and 1895-9-15-626). Another very similar drawing - catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the collection of the 'Academy at Milan' - is currently untraced (see RCIN 851206).

    The photograph shows the full-length Virgin, seated almost in profile to left, holding the naked Christ Child on her lap.

    • Creator(s)

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

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

      Subject(s)

      Blessed Virgin Mary

    • 20.7 x 16.5 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

    • 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
          • photographs
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Catalogue of the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. v. P. Pouncey and J.A.Gere, Raphael and His Circle (1962); vol.1; pp.45-6, under no.58

      Inventario Uffizi. Disegni Esposti I 1986 : Disegni esposti ; v. 1, 1986 / a cura di Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Florence (Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi) pp.224-5, no.498E

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.91 C.XIV.1

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