Holy Families & Madonna and Child
Holy Families & Madonna and Child
LUIGI BRIDI (ACTIVE 1820S)
The Holy Family with the Infant Baptist
published 1828Etching | 21.3 x 14.3 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851087
A outline-etching after a painting then in the possession of Sig. Carlo Sanquirico, Milan. The painting is a copy of the so-called ‘Madonna de Passeggio’, a picture generally attributed to the workshop of Raphael possibly after a design by the master (c.1518-20), currently on loan to National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (inv. no. NGL 064.46) from the Duke of Sutherland Collection. Lettered with production details. Published in F. Longhena, 'Istoria della vita e delle opere di Raffaello Sanzio', 1829.
Showing the full-length Virgin holding the Christ Child with her left hand and putting her right on the head of the Infant John the Baptist, who approaches them on the left holding a cross staff, with St Joseph in the left middle-ground; in a landscape.
Creator(s)
Luigi Bridi (active 1820s) (etcher)
After a work copying The Workshop of Raphael (artist)
Carlo Picozzi (active 1797-1883) (designer)
Francesco Sonzogno di Gio. Batta : Milan (publisher)
21.3 x 14.3 cm (sheet of paper)
18.9 x 13.5 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
Bibliographic reference(s)
p.91, no.42 (entry by A. Weston-Lewis) (Raphael. The Pursuit of Perfection 1994 : Raphael. The Pursuit of Perfection, National Galleries of Scotland, 1994)
pp. 227-230, no. A2 (Capellen 2005 : Capellen, JM, 2005. Raphael : the paintings. Volume 2, The Roman Religious Paintings ca.1508-1520 )
