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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

AFTER A WORK BY THE WORKSHOP OF RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

The Virgin and Child with Saints [‘The Madonna dell’Impannata’]

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 49.1 x 38.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851074

A photograph 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).

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 by the workshop of Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    Subject(s)

    Saint Elizabeth
    Blessed Virgin Mary
  • 49.1 x 38.4 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
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

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

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.81 A.XLI.1