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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

LOUIS ZOELLNER (1769-1860)

The Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels ['The Sistine Madonna']

c.1798-1850

Lithograph | 87.1 x 65.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851065

A lithograph after the so-called ‘Sistine Madonna’, a painting by Raphael now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (inv. no.93). State with some lettering, but without title. With the lithographer's signature in pencil at lower right.

Showing the full-length Virgin standing on clouds and holding the Christ Child in her arms, flanked by St Pope Sixtus on the left and St Barbara on the right, with two upward-looking winged cherubs at lower centre; the composition is framed by open curtains.
  • Creator(s)

    Louis Zoellner (1769-1860) (lithographer)

    After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    Paris : Lemercier (printer)

    Louis Zoellner: Dresden (publisher)

  • Louis Zoellner.

  • 87.1 x 65.9 cm (sheet of paper)

    73.6 x 55.1 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
          • Angels, demons, devils, saints
            • Saints (Christianity)
          • Life of Christ
            • Infancy of Christ
              • Christ Child
    • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
      • Zoology
        • Animals
          • Mythical creatures
            • Cherubs
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Home economics
        • Furniture & accessories
          • Curtains
      • Industries, Crafts and Trades
        • Jewellery
          • Tiaras
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp. 107-116, no. 53 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )