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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    STEFANO MULINARI (1741-90)

    The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist

    dated 1784

    Etching printed in brown ink | 37.2 x 24.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850825

    A facsimile etching of a drawing by Raphael (c.1507-08) now in the Uffizi, Florence (inv. no.539E; see RCIN 850824 for a photograph of it). Lettered with production details. Published in 'Scuola Italiana o sia Nuova Raccolta di Stampe a Forma di Disegni', Rome 1787, plate 23.

    The drawing is a preparatory study for Raphael's so-called 'Esterházy Madonna’ (1508) now in the Szepmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (inv. no.71; see RCIN 850819 for a photograph of it).

    Showing the kneeling Virgin supporting the Christ Child with both hands, who sits on a rock and points at the Infant Baptist, who kneels down on the left; in a landscape.

    • Creator(s)

      Stefano Mulinari (1741-90) (etcher)

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

      Conte Francesco d'Hardegg Glalz (dedicatee)

    • 37.2 x 24.4 cm (sheet of paper)

      27.6 x 18.2 cm (image)

      35.3 x 22.1 cm (platemark)

    • 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
            • Life of Christ
              • Infancy of Christ
                • Christ Child
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      p. 174, no. 169 (Joannides 1983 : Joannides, P., 1983. The Drawings of Raphael, with a complete catalogue, Oxford)

      p. 242, no. 539E (Inventario Uffizi. Disegni Esposti I 1986 : Disegni esposti ; v. 1, 1986 / a cura di Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, Florence (Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi))

      pp. 254-257, no. 34 (Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 )

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