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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

CARL GUSTAV OEHME (1817-81)

The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist and a haloed Child [‘The Terranuova Madonna’]

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 40.3 cm (image diameter) | RCIN 850660

A photograph of the Terranuova Madonna (c.1504-05) by Raphael now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (inv. no.247A).

Showing the Virgin seated in front of a parapet and the naked Christ Child lying across her lap with an inscribed scroll also held by the Infant Baptist who is standing on the left; on the right is a yet unidentified haloed standing infant.
  • Creator(s)

    Carl Gustav Oehme (1817-81) (photographer)

    After Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

  • 40.3 cm (image diameter)

  • 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
              • Virgin & Child with Saints
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 pp.188-191, no. 19

    Other number(s)

    Ruland p.55 A.V.1