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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

    NOEL FRANÇOIS BERTRAND (1784-1852)

    The Virgin holding the Hand of the Christ Child

    c.1804-1842

    Coloured stipple | 54.9 x 43.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851177

    A print probably reproducing a deatil from a larger composition attributed on plate to Raphael and described as being then in the collection of Mr Legras at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. According to the lettering below the image, the painting was known as 'La Vierge a la Pensée'. Lettered with production details. The complete composition - which Ruland (1876) attributed to Bernard van Orley - is known through a print by Desnoyers. See RCIN 851176.

    The print shows the seated Virgin, three-quarter to the left, holding some flowers with her left hand anf the hand of a Child (the Infant Jesus) with her right.

    • Creator(s)

      Noel François Bertrand (1784-1852) (engraver)

      After a work previously attributed to Bernard van Orley (c. 1488-1541/2) (artist)

      Edme Gratien Parizeau (b. 1783) (designer)

      Bertrand : Rue de Savoie no. 9, Paris (publisher)

      After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    • 54.9 x 43.2 cm (sheet of paper)

      52.4 x 40.8 cm (platemark)

    • S.TE VIERGE.

    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Subject(s)
      • Natural Sciences & Mathematics
        • Botany
          • Systematic botany
            • Flowering plants
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Christianity
            • Life of Christ
              • Infancy of Christ
                • Christ Child
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