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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

AFTER A WORK COPYING THE CIRCLE OF RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

The Virgin and Child with Saints

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 22.1 x 18.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851081

A photograph of a painting formerly owned by Lord Methuen and currently at Corsham Court, Wiltshire. The photographed picture is an early copy of the so-called ‘Madonna dell’Impannata’, a painting generally attributed to Raphael's workshop after a design by the master (c.1513-16) now in the Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence (inv. no.94). A photograph of the ‘Madonna dell’Impannata’ can be found at RCIN 851074. Showing the standing Virgin receiving the Christ Child from St Elizabeth (?) who is seating alongside a female saint on the left, with the young John the Baptist pointing at the Child on the right; in an interior, with a window in the right background.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work copying the circle of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

  • 22.1 x 18.1 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for 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
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp. 144-149, no. 58 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )