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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

Head of a woman

c.1853-76

Albumen print | 18.9 x 14.7 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851013

A photograph of a drawing now in the British Museum, London (inv. 1860,0616.120), generally believed to be a copy after the head of the Virgin in the so-called 'Madonna di Loreto', a painting by Raphael (c.1511) housed in the Musée Condé, Chantilly (inv. no.68; see RCIN 850869 for a print reproducing this painting and further information about it).

Showing the head and neck of a woman, looking down to the left.
  • Creator(s)

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

  • 18.9 x 14.7 cm (sheet of paper)

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

  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    p. 38, no. 47 (Italian Drawings [...] British Museum: Raphael and his circle: catalogue, 1962 / Philip Pouncey and J.A. Gere, London)
    pp. 183-189, no. 64 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )