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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 14.8 x 14.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850868

    A photograph of a painting formerly owned by Prince Putbus, Rügen, catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the possession of Count Friedrich von Wylich und Lottum, Berlin. The painting is a replica after Raphael’s so-called ‘Alba Madonna’ now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (inv. no.1937.1.24; see RCIN 850853.a for a photograph of it).

    Showing the Virgin seating on the ground and holding the Christ Child on her right leg, who reaches for the cross-staff held by the Infant Baptist who kneels down on the left.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work copying Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    • 14.8 x 14.4 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
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