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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    The Virgin and Child with St Elizabeth (?) and another female saint

    c.1860-76

    Carbon print | 20.8 x 14.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851077

    A photograph of a drawing by Raphael (c.1512) now in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RCIN 912742). The drawing is a study for 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 painting 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.

    • Creator(s)

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

    • 20.8 x 14.3 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

    • 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.121-3, no.13 (Jacoby/Sonnabend 2012: edited by J. Jacoby and M. Sonnabend, Frankfurt/Main 2012)

      no. 0800 (P&W : Popham, A.E. & Wilde, J., 1949. The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty The King at Windsor Castle, London)

      pp. 93-95, no. 23 (Clayton 1999 : Clayton, M. Raphael and his Circle. Drawings from Windsor Castle, London)

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

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