Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
CLAUDE LOUIS MASQUELIER (1781-1852)
The Virgin and Child [‘The Colonna Madonna’]
1820Etching and engraving | 33.4 x 25.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850817
A engraving reproducing (in reverse) the so-called Colonna Madonna, a painting by Raphael (1507-08) now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no.248).
Showing the Virgin holding a book in her right hand and supporting the Christ Child with her left arm, who sits on her lap and grasps her bodice while looking at the viewer; in a landscape.
According to Queen Victoria, the Colonna Madonna was Prince Albert's favourite painting by Raphael. He gave a porcelain copy of it to his wife as a present for Christmas 1858 (RCIN 404017); the back of plaque bears the inscription: “The Prince consort’s favorite picture 1861.”
Showing the Virgin holding a book in her right hand and supporting the Christ Child with her left arm, who sits on her lap and grasps her bodice while looking at the viewer; in a landscape.
According to Queen Victoria, the Colonna Madonna was Prince Albert's favourite painting by Raphael. He gave a porcelain copy of it to his wife as a present for Christmas 1858 (RCIN 404017); the back of plaque bears the inscription: “The Prince consort’s favorite picture 1861.”
Creator(s)
Claude Louis Masquelier (1781-1852) (engraver)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Claude Louis Masquelier (1781-1852) (designer)
[France] : Gellée (printer)
C.L. Masquelier : rue de Fourey 11, Paris (publisher)
Subject(s)
Blessed Virgin Mary33.4 x 25.3 cm (sheet of paper)
26.4 x 19.5 cm (image)
30.5 x 22.0 cm (platemark)
LA VIERGE / dite la Madonna del palazzo Colonna.
- 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
- Infancy of Christ
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
- Religion & Theology
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.4
