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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    The Virgin and Child reading in a landscape ['The Conestabile Madonna']

    c.1860-76

    Carbon print | RCIN 850645

    A photograph of the 'Conestabile Madonna' by Raphael (c.1503-04) now in the Hermitage, St Petersburg (inv. no.GS 252), within a magnificent decorative frame; showing the half length figure of the Virgin, supporting the Christ Child with her left hand and holding a small book in her right.
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

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