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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.1650-1750

    Etching | 8.3 x 5.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850893

    An etching after a painting catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the Bridgewater Gallery, London. The painting appears to be a replica the so-called ‘Madonna of the Blue Diadem’, a painting generally attributed to Raphael’s workshop (possibly G.F. Penni or Giulio Romano) housed in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. 603; see RCIN 850887 for it).

    Showing the Virgin lifting a veil over the sleeping Christ Child with the Infant Baptist kneeling down in adoration on the right; in a landscape.

    • Creator(s)

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

    • 8.3 x 5.8 cm (sheet of paper)

    • 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
      • Science, Medicine and Technology
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          • Jewellery
            • Diadems
          • Clothing
            • Headgear
              • Veils
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