Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
AUGUST HOFFMANN (1810-72)
Holy Family with the Basin ['Madonna del Catino']
dated 1847Engraving | 46.5 x 35.4 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851169
A print after the so-called 'Madonna mit dem Becken' (Madonna del Catino), a painting by Giulio Romano (c.1525) currently housed in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (inv. no. 103). Signed and dated. Proof before letter.
The print shows the three-quarter length Virgin bathing the Christ Child who turns His head towards the Infant Baptist who pours water from a jug, with St Anne holding a cloth at left and St Joseph in the background at right; in an interior.
Creator(s)
August Hoffmann (1810-72) (engraver)
After Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546) (artist)
46.5 x 35.4 cm (sheet of paper)
37.0 x 27.8 cm (image)
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
- Virgin & Child
- Life of Christ
- Infancy of Christ
- Christ Child
- Infancy of Christ
- Devotional Images of Christ
- Christianity
- Religions and faiths
- Religion & Theology
