Raphael was especially esteemed for his Madonna and Child compositions
Sébastien Vouillemont (b. c. 1610)
Holy Family with the Infant Baptist [‘The Madonna della Rosa’] c.1630-1660
Engraving | 36.3 x 26.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851105
![Holy Family with the Infant Baptist [`The Madonna della Rosa?]](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/4/7/743658-1521458228.jpg?itok=7_9m5og6 "Holy Family with the Infant Baptist [`The Madonna della Rosa?]")
A print reproducing the composition of the so-called Madonna della Rosa, a painting now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (inv. no.302) generally attributed to Raphael and his workshop (c.1517-18). Trimmed along all edges and laid down on thin paper. Lettered with Latin text and dedicatee’s coat of arms. Not listed in Ruland's Raphael Collection catalogue (1876). Another impression of this plate (trimmed along image borders) can be found at RCIN 851104.
Showing the seated Virgin supporting the Christ Child with both hands, with St Joseph and the Infant Baptist presenting the Child with an inscribed roll on the left; in an interior.
Showing the seated Virgin supporting the Christ Child with both hands, with St Joseph and the Infant Baptist presenting the Child with an inscribed roll on the left; in an interior.
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Creator(s)
Sébastien Vouillemont (b. c. 1610) (engraver)
After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)
Anne Marie Louise de Orleans, Duchess of Montpensier and Princess of Dombes (1627-93) (dedicatee)
Subject(s)
Saint JosephBlessed Virgin Mary -
36.3 x 26.8 cm (sheet of paper)
33.2 x 26.7 cm (image)
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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
- Natural Sciences & Mathematics
- Botany
- Systematic botany
- Flowering plants
- Roses
- Flowering plants
- Systematic botany
- Botany
- visual works
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Other number(s)
Ruland p.83 A.XLVI.2a(add)
Bibliographic reference(s)
Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 pp. 178-182, no. 63
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