Studies for a Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist

A photograph of the verso of a study sheet by Raphael (c.1505) now in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. no.IV,207 v). The sheet is connected with Raphael's so-called ‘Madonna of the Meadow’ (1505 or 1506) a painting now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no.GG175), in preparation of which it is thought to have been executed. See RCIN 850706 for a print reproducing the painting.

Showing numerous compositional sketches for a group of the Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist.