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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    ROBERTS, C. (C19)

    The Virgin from 'La Belle Jardiniere'

    c.1800-1899

    Engraving | RCIN 850809

    An engraving after the figure of the Virgin in Raphael’s so-called ‘La Belle Jardinière’ (1508) now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no.602). See RCIN 850796 for a photograph of the painting. Signed by the printmaker and lettered with the title. Not in Ruland (1876).

    • Creator(s)

      Roberts, C. (C19) (engraver)

      After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    • ' THE MADONNA '

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Devotional Images of Christ
              • Virgin & Child
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • prints
    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 pp. 157-263, no. 35

      Other number(s)

      Ruland p.65 A.XIX.15(add)

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