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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

Salted paper print | 11.4 x 8.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850823

A photograph of a painting catalogued by Ruland (1876) as being then in a private collection in England. The painting is a copy of Raphael’s so-called Esterházy Madonna (1507-08) 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. According to Ruland (1876), the photographed painting may then have been housed in .
  • Creator(s)

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

    Subject(s)

    Blessed Virgin Mary
  • 11.4 x 8.9 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
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.66 A.XXII.5