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.1804-1842Coloured 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.
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
- Systematic botany
- Botany
- Religion & Theology
- Religions and faiths
- Christianity
- Life of Christ
- Infancy of Christ
- Christ Child
- Infancy of Christ
- Life of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
