Raphael was especially esteemed for his Madonna and Child compositions
Constant Louis Antoine Lorichon (1800-1856?)
Holy Family with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist [‘The Madonna del Divino Amore’] published 25 March 1844
Etching and engraving | 85.7 x 60.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 850911
![Holy Family with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist [`The Madonna del Divino Amore?]](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/9/d/743453-1521457088.jpg?itok=LRP750CO "Holy Family with St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist [`The Madonna del Divino Amore?]")
A print after a painting traditionally known as the Madonna del Divino Amore (c.1516), currently attributed to Raphael’s workshop and housed in the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples (inv. no.146). Lettered with ancient attribution of the painting to Raphael, title and production details. With the publisher’s blind stamp at lower left (not in Lugt). Not in Ruland (1876).
Showing the seated Virgin holding the blessing Christ Child on her legs, with St Elizabeth at her side and the Young St John the Baptist kneeling down on the left; St Joseph stands in the background to the left.
Showing the seated Virgin holding the blessing Christ Child on her legs, with St Elizabeth at her side and the Young St John the Baptist kneeling down on the left; St Joseph stands in the background to the left.
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Creator(s)
Constant Louis Antoine Lorichon (1800-1856?) (engraver)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Auguste Gaspard Louis Boucher Desnoyers (1779-1857) (designer)
Bougeard : Paris (printer)
Goupil & Vibert : 15 Boulevard Montmartre & 7 Rue de Lancry, Paris (publisher)
Berlin : L. Sachse and Co (publisher)
Anaglyphic Co, The : 25 Berners St, Oxford St. (publisher)
After a work previously attributed to Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Subject(s)
Saint ElizabethSaint JosephBlessed Virgin Mary -
85.7 x 60.5 cm (sheet of paper)
51.7 x 39.6 cm (image)
66.2 x 49.5 cm (platemark)
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SAINTE FAMILLE dite À LA BÉNÉDICTION / "Nunc ego mitto te aperire oculos eorum."
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Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (after 1876)
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Object type(s)
- visual works
- prints
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
- Virgin & Child
- Life of Christ
- Infancy of Christ
- Christ Child
- Infancy of Christ
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.71 A.XXX.1a(add)
Bibliographic reference(s)
Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 pp. 247-251, no. A8
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