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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    JEAN JACQUES FRILLEY (1797-AFTER 1850)

    The Virgin and Child reading in a landscape

    c.1817-1850

    Steel-faced drypoint | 21.1 x 19.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850637

    A drypoint after a drawing by Raphael now in the Louvre (inv. no.3855r). See RCIN 850636 for a photograph of the drawing.

    • Creator(s)

      Jean Jacques Frilley (1797-after 1850) (drypointer)

      After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

      Chalcographie du Louvre : Paris (publisher)

    • 21.1 x 19.6 cm (sheet of paper)

      12.3 x 12.2 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
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Cordellier/Py 1992 : Raphael : son atelier, ses copistes, 1992 / par Dominique Cordellier et Bernadette Py, Paris (Inventaire general des dessins Italiens ; V / sous la direction de Francoise Viatte) p.32, no.23

      Jacoby/Sonnabend 2012: edited by J. Jacoby and M. Sonnabend, Frankfurt/Main 2012 pp.85-7, no.2

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.54 A.I.3

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