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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

AFTER A WORK COPYING RAPHAEL (1483-1520)

The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist

c.1853-76

Albumen prints | RCIN 850798

A set of four photographs reproducing details of a painting catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in the possession of Lord Ashburton. The painting is a copy of Raphael’s so-called La Belle Jardinière (1508) now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.602).

Showing the seated Virgin looking at the standing Child while supporting Him, with the Infant St John the Baptist kneeling down at her side holding a cross staff.
  • Creator(s)

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

  • 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
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.65 A.XIX.3