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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    THOMAS SCHNAITMANN (1796-1821)

    The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist

    dated 1818

    Lithograph | 25.5 x 19.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850718

    A lithograph reproducing a drawing by Raphael (c.1505) now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (inv. no.64.47, Rogers Fund, 1984; see also RCIN 850709).

    The drawing is closely related to Raphael’s so-called Madonna of the Meadow (1505 or 1506), a painting now in the in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no.GG175), for which it is in fact considered to be a preparatory study. See RCIN 850706 for a print reproducing the painting.

    • Creator(s)

      Thomas Schnaitmann (1796-1821) (lithographer)

      After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    • 25.5 x 19.9 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Place of Production
      Vienna [Austria]
    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Devotional Images of Christ
              • Virgin & Child
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Jacoby/Sonnabend 2012: edited by J. Jacoby and M. Sonnabend, Frankfurt/Main 2012 pp.100-02, no.7

      Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford p. 160, no. 113r

      Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 pp. 214-219, no. 26

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.60 A.X.14

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