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    FRATELLI ALINARI [FLORENCE]

    Portrait of a Woman ['La Fornarina']

    c.1853-76

    Albumen print | 56.1 x 39.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852039

    A photograph of the so-called 'La Fornarina', a painting by Raphael (c.1518-20) now in the Galleria Nazionale di Arte Antica, Rome (inv. no.2333). With photographer's blind stamp at lower right.

    • Creator(s)

      Fratelli Alinari [Florence] (photographer)

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

    • 56.1 x 39.1 cm (sheet of paper)

    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

    • Bibliographic reference(s)

      pp.144-9, no.78 (Capellen 2008 : Capellen, JM, 2008. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 3, The Roman Portraits ca.1508-1520)

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