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Holy Families & Madonna and Child

Holy Families & Madonna and Child

CARL ERNST CHRISTOPH HESS (1755-1828)

Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant Baptist [‘The Canigiani Holy Family’]

dated 1804

Etching and engraving | 42.4 x 34.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850761

A print after the so-called ‘Canigiani Holy Family’, a painting by Raphael (c.1506-07) now in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (inv. no.WA 476). Lettered with the title and production details. See RCIN 850756 for a photograph of the painting.

Showing the Virgin supporting the Christ Child on her knees, who leans forward to the Infant Baptist held by St Elizabeth, with St Joseph standing behind them and supporting himself with a stick; in a landscape.
  • Creator(s)

    Carl Ernst Christoph Hess (1755-1828) (engraver)

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

    Artaria, D. : Mannheim (publisher)

  • 42.4 x 34.1 cm (sheet of paper)

    23.4 x 19.7 cm (image)

    32.4 x 26.3 cm (platemark)

  • La S.ta Famiglia.

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

  • Subject(s)
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Christianity
          • Devotional Images of Christ
            • Virgin & Child
              • Virgin & Child with Saints
                • Virgin & Child with Saints-Holy Family
                  • Virgin & Child with Saints-Holy Family: More than one other figure
  • Bibliographic reference(s)

    pp. 227-232, no. 30 (Capellen 2001 : Capellen, JM, 2001. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 1, The Beginning in Umbria and Florence ca.1500-1508 )